Published Tuesday, February 20, 2007 by Henry Hazlitt
In 1933, Henry Hazlitt left The Nation magazine to become Mencken's successor at the American Mercury. During the transition, he wrote an important but lost book on literary criticism that will be of intense interest to economists and literature scholars. His appendix is particularly compelling, for here he blasts the rise of a new breed of critic, one who sees all literature through Marxian eyes. Hazlitt wrote long before this strain of thought became dominant in the profession.
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Literature and the "Class War" (4.23 MB)