A Moral Temper: The alphabetic char...

A Moral Temper: The alphabetic characters of Dwight Macdonald Ed. Michael Wrezin. Chicago: Ivan R Dee 2001 481 pp $3500
Macdonald, Dwight
"'A Moral Temper' edited by way of Macdonald's biographer, collects more than 400 of Macdonald's literal meanings from a letter sent to his parents from Phillips Exeter in 1920 to one sent a scarcely any months before his death in 1982 to his son Nicholas....In between are verbal expressions to most of his prominent writers, editors and