Macdonald, Dwight

Dates:
Active 1865
Active 1984
English, Spanish; Castilian, French,

Biographical notes:

Dwight Macdonald was born on March 24, 1906, in New York City. He graduated from Yale University in 1928 (B.A.). He served as associate editor of Fortune Magazine (1929-1936) and editor of the Partisan Review (1937-1943). Macdonald joined the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyist Party), and was a member from 1939-1941. He published numerous books, articles, and essays in addition to publishing a journal, Politics, from 1944-1949. He also wrote for Esquire and The New Yorker, and published Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1956), which was reissued in 1970 as Politics Past. Macdonald died on December 19, 1982, in New York City.

From the description of Dwight Macdonald papers, 1865-1984 (inclusive), 1920-1978 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702182521

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Subjects:

  • Communism
  • Film criticism
  • Journalism
  • Motion pictures
  • Radicalism
  • Socialism
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975

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  • Authors
  • Editors

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  • United States (as recorded)
  • Popular culture--United States (as recorded)

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