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Title: A Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald by Dwight Macdonald, Michael Wreszin ISBN: 1-56663-393-1 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Profile of Honesty and Courage
Comment: As one who is a generation younger than Dwight Macdonald and therefore came of age in the time that he was writing these letters this was of great interest.
I regret that I was generally unaware of his writings at the time but am sincerely grateful to have had this belated opportunity to sample them.
The political and literary culture of the middle 50 years of the 20th century are brilliantly explicated. As one with the courage to take on the Stalinists on the left and the McCarthyites on the right he deserves a more prominent place of honor in the literary annals of this country.
I look forward to reading "A Rebel in Defense of Traddition".
Update: 23 September, 2002--
Having now read the Michael Wreszin's biography "A Rebel in Defense of Tradition" I am ready to reiterate my praise for the life and works of Dwight Macdonald with the reservation that Macdonald was a complex and often difficult personality.
Quoting from the review of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt "Dwight Macdonald emerges as a hugely appealing figure in these pages. Mr. Wreszin lends sense somehow to every step in his subject's sometimes erratic reasoning"
Macdonald was certainly on occasion erratic but in the end he was HONEST, COURAGEOUS and mostly RIGHT.

Rating: 1
Summary: A Moral Temer
Comment: Actually I would not even give this book 1 Star, but that seems to be my only choice. Mr Macdonald can not seem to decide whether or not he is a homosexutial or not. His letters seem to ramble on and on. At times he admits he is a communist, but surly does not like Stalin in the least. He seems to be one of the weakest men I have encountered. I am sorry that I spent my time reading this book, and can't even explain why I bought the book, nor why I kept reading it. But it was like watching an accident. I kept thinking since someone wrote and published this book, that something good was to come. Bad choice.