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Young Sidney Hook
Marxist and Pragmatist

Christopher Phelps



An essential intellectual history of the American Left

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About the Book

One of the most controversial figures in the history of American philosophy, Sidney Hook was "an intellectual street fighter," who began his career as a brilliant Marxist thinker and "probably the greatest polemicist of [the 20th] century" (Edward Shils) before breaking with the Communist Party in the late 1930s. Turning in his later years to an allegiance with American conservatives including Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, Hook is now widely known as an intellectual father of the neoconservative movement.

Christopher Phelps is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University.

Visit Professor Phelps's website at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/phelps51/christopherphelps.htm.