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Waiting For My Man

This is the second of two excellent reviews on the recent Mark Greif book, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973. Read the other review by Professor Patrick Redding here. Mark Greif, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973, (Princeton University Press, 2015) xii + 434 pages.Review by Daniel WickbergMark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man is a big, ambitious book, as should be clear from the fact that it has been so widely reviewed, and almost everywhere positively. Unafraid to aim for large-scale synthetic claims Read more