{"product_id":"atrocities-of-the-mind-essays-on-violence-and-politics-in-the-american-century-paperback","title":"Atrocities of the Mind: Essays on Violence and Politics in the American Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDwight MacDonald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Summers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Summers\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential collection of Dwight Macdonald's prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of collective guilt make sense in assessing responsibility for genocide? Has modern mechanized society forever destroyed the possibility of peaceful resistance through art and civil disobedience? \u003ci\u003eAtrocities of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e presents anew Dwight Macdonald, one of America's foremost literary journalists and political activists, grappling with the hard questions of his time--and ours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this collection, Macdonald writes about major events--the Holocaust, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Gandhi's assassination, the Vietnam War, and social phenomena such as mass shootings, campus protests, and police brutality--with clear-sighted and buoyant prose. He writes incisively about the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski, praises Dorothy Day's pacifism, and reports circulating an antiwar petition in the White House Rose Garden. And not without effect: his essay \"Our Invisible Poor\" is said to have spurred the Johnson administration's War on Poverty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNorman Mailer memorably called Macdonald \"a man with whom one might seldom agree but could never disrespect because he always told the truth as he saw the truth--a man therefore of the most incorruptible integrity.\" In our America, reeling from political violence, Macdonald's truth-telling reminds us how we got here and whom we might still become.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDwight Macdonald \u003c\/b\u003e(1906-1982) was an American writer, critic, activist, editor of \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and founder of \u003ci\u003ePolitics. \u003c\/i\u003eHe wrote for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Summers \u003c\/b\u003eis a historian, the author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Fury on Earth, \u003c\/i\u003eand the editor of four books, including Dwight Macdonald's \u003ci\u003eMasscult and Midcult\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.91 x 6.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52108288164141,"sku":"9780226847993","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Bb-9EP4VQB9780226847993.webp?v=1780487419","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/atrocities-of-the-mind-essays-on-violence-and-politics-in-the-american-century-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}