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Book Review of Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World
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A good read about an interesting, complex intellectual. Multiple husbands and affairs, How & why she came to be regarded as a leading intellectual, her friendship with Hannah Arendt. Her side of the famous McCarthy-Hellman lawsuit was juicy.