The Last Romantic: A Life Of Max Eastman
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Max Eastman was a man who lived as if the twentieth century were his personal canvas — radical activist, poet, literary critic, and champion of free thought, he moved through the great ideological storms of his era with the restless energy of a true believer constantly reinventing his beliefs. The Last Romantic: A Life of Max Eastman chronicles the remarkable life of this mercurial American intellectual, from his early days as editor of the legendary socialist journal *The Masses* to his eventual disillusionment with Marxism and his unlikely embrace of libertarian conservatism. William L. O'Neill traces the arc of a life lived at the very centre of American radical politics, bohemian culture, and literary ambition, painting a portrait of a man who was simultaneously visionary and contradictory. O'Neill writes with the precision of a trained historian and the narrative flair of a biographer deeply invested in his subject, situating Eastman within the broader currents of American intellectual life across six turbulent decades. The result is a study not merely of one man, but of the seductive and ultimately tragic romance with revolutionary idealism that defined a generation of American thinkers. For anyone seeking to understand the passionate contradictions at the heart of twentieth-century American radicalism, this biography presents an indispensable and quietly unsettling reckoning.
Author: William L. O'Neill
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Oxford University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Max Eastman was a man who lived as if the twentieth century were his personal canvas — radical activist, poet, literary critic, and champion of free thought, he moved through the great ideological storms of his era with the restless energy of a true believer constantly reinventing his beliefs. The Last Romantic: A Life of Max Eastman chronicles the remarkable life of this mercurial American intellectual, from his early days as editor of the legendary socialist journal *The Masses* to his eventual disillusionment with Marxism and his unlikely embrace of libertarian conservatism. William L. O'Neill traces the arc of a life lived at the very centre of American radical politics, bohemian culture, and literary ambition, painting a portrait of a man who was simultaneously visionary and contradictory. O'Neill writes with the precision of a trained historian and the narrative flair of a biographer deeply invested in his subject, situating Eastman within the broader currents of American intellectual life across six turbulent decades. The result is a study not merely of one man, but of the seductive and ultimately tragic romance with revolutionary idealism that defined a generation of American thinkers. For anyone seeking to understand the passionate contradictions at the heart of twentieth-century American radicalism, this biography presents an indispensable and quietly unsettling reckoning.