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Social critic David T. Bazelon was one of the "New York Intellectuals" whose work appeared in journals like
Commentary, Partisan Review, Dissent, and Politics in the years following the Second World War. Throughout his career, Bazelon was associated with writers and intellectuals like James T. Farrell, Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, and others. He was born in 1923 in Shreveport, Louisiana, and grew up in Milwaukee and Chicago.Bazelon briefly attended the Universities of Illinois, Virginia, and Chicago before graduating from Columbia University in 1949. He taught at Bard College for a year and then enrolled in the Yale School of Law (LL.B., 1953). From 1953 to 1958, Bazelon worked as a corporate attorney in New York City. Bazelon quit his law practice in 1958 in order to devote himself to writing. He assisted his uncle, the federal judge David L. Bazelon, with research and writing for speeches and articles from 1959 until 1965, and worked briefly as a writer and interviewer for ABC's
Mike Wallace Interview Show during the late 1950s. Bazelon was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1963-1965), visiting professor at Rutgers Law School (1965-1967), and a Guggenheim fellow (1967-1968). In 1969, Bazelon joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo, retiring as Professor of Policy Studies and English in 1985. Bazelon was married three times and had a son, Coleman, by his second marriage.At every stage of his careers, Bazelon thought of himself first as a writer. Beginning in 1943 with book reviews in
The New Republic and The New York Times Book Review, Bazelon contributed more than a hundred articles, reviews, stories, and poems to periodicals including Commentary, Reporter, Partisan Review, New Leader, and Dissent. He was an early contributor to Dwight MacDonald's influential journal, Politics. Although Bazelon's initial interest was in writing fiction and poetry, his earliest success came from his essays and reviews, and he established his reputation as a social critic. Bazelon continued to write fiction, much of it autobiographical, as well as poetry throughout his career, most of which remained unpublished. Bazelon also gave speeches in academic, professional, and civic venues and contributed to a number of conferences. He wrote the script for the 1964 documentary Point of Order about Joseph McCarthy, and contributed liner notes for Columbia Records releases.Bazelon published three books:
The Paper Economy (1963), Power in America (1967), and Nothing But a Fine Tooth Comb (1970). The Paper Economy was an analysis of the corporation and its relation to the structure of the American economy. It was listed by the American Library Association as one of its fifty notable books of 1963. In Power in America, Bazelon took up the ideas of Milovan Djilas and John Kenneth Galbraith to examine the growing power of intellectuals in American society. Publication of the book was a seminal moment in the discussion of the idea of a "New Class" that culminated in the "New Class Study" and subsequent publication of the volume The New Class? (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1979). Bazelon served as an advisor to the project. Nothing But a Fine Tooth Comb, Bazelon's third book, collected many of the essays and reviews he had published in periodicals together with previously unpublished material and new introductory material and an epilogue written for the book.The course of Bazelon's literary and professional careers is discussed and documented in the extensive collection of letters contained in the David T. Bazelon papers. He met the future novelist and film-writer Calder Willingham at the University of Virginia and the two young writers carried on an extensive correspondence during the years 1941-1944 in which they discussed their ideas about writing and their plans for work. During the same period, Bazelon wrote to the novelist James T. Farrell soliciting advice on pursuing a writing career and the older novelist responded with a series of letters, from 1942 through 1944. Bazelon also corresponded extensively with Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, and Dwight MacDonald in both personal and professional capacities. Other significant correspondents include his uncle, Judge David L. Bazelon, the sociologist David Riesman, and the peace activist Robert Pickus, another early friend from his time at the University of Chicago.
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hill, Mich.: The Gale Group, 2004. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Accessed 11 Aug. 2004 Other information derived from the collection.
The David T. Bazelon papers includes of manuscripts, correspondence, books, clippings, and photographs documenting the work of the social critic and member of the post-war "New York Intellectuals," David T. Bazelon.
The collection is divided into four series corresponding to the major areas of Bazelon's work and life. The files closely follow the original order of the papers, with correspondence collected carefully and records of freelance writing meticulously maintained by the author throughout his life. The first series documents Bazelon's literary work. Series two contains material related to Bazelon's academic career as a student and as a professor at Rutgers Law School and SUNY Buffalo. The third series relates to his legal career. The final series concerns his personal life, including a substantial collection of correspondence spanning a period of over forty years.
The Literary Work series includes Bazelon's files on his three books:
The Paper Economy (1959), Power in America: the Politics of the New Class (1967), and Nothing But a Fine Tooth Comb: Essays in Social Criticism, 1944-1969 (1969). Also included are files on Bazelon's articles for magazines and journals like Commentary, Politics, Dissent, and others from the late 1940s through the 1980s. Many of these articles were reprinted in Nothing But a Fine Tooth Comb along with articles and essays that had not been previously published. The series also includes an extensive collection of unpublished work, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as Bazelon's journals. In addition, the series includes material related to the discussion of "The New Class" that was stimulated in part by Bazelon's book Power in America and his article "The New Class," published in Commentary in August 1966. The discussion culminated in the formation of "The New Class Study Group" and publication of the volume The New Class? edited by B. Bruce-Briggs, in 1979. Contributors included Daniel Bell, Peter L. Berger, Nathan Glazer, Michael Harrington, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Kevin P. Philips, Norman Podhoretz, and others. Bazelon served as an advisor to the project and the collection includes Bazelon's annotations and comments on drafts of the essays included in the volume.The "Ghost-writing" section of the series documents Bazelon's work during the late 1950s and early 1960s as a researcher-writer for his uncle, federal judge David L. Bazelon, as well as his brief employment as a writer and interviewer for the ABC television program
The Mike Wallace Interview Show during the late 1950s. Bazelon's research files are included in the literary series. The files include a vast array of clippings and other printed material related to his work, mostly focused on issues of contemporary politics, economics, and popular culture. The research files as a whole provide a great sense of the times and represent topical fodder for a social critic. He collected clippings and articles, some annotated and underlined, on everything from Law and Lawyers to consumerism, from the Kennedy administration to the rise of Reagan and neo-conservatism. He observed cultural phenomena from the 1950s television quiz scandal to Jim Jones and mass suicides of the People's Temple congregation. Bazelon was particularly interested in the social unrest of the 1960s, collecting information about "the student left" and events at Columbia University and Chicago. Also included is material related to conferences in which he participated and organizations to which he belonged. The sub-series on organizations includesAlso included is material related to conferences in which he participated and organizations to which he belonged. The sub-series on organizations includes Bazelon's sole foray into political activism with position papers and correspondence related to his attempt to found a National Coalition for a New Congress in 1964. Bazelon's collection of reprints, typescripts, and clippings by and about his friends and associates completes the Literary works series. Material generally follows the arrangement made by Bazelon himself.
The Academic series includes material relating to Bazelon's undergraduate career and to his career as a professor at Rutgers Law School and at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The undergraduate material consists mainly of class notes. Bazelon's teaching career is documented through correspondence with administrators and colleagues, reports of committees on which he served, and his lecture notes and other records relating to particular courses he taught. Included in the sub-series on Bazelon's career at Rutgers are materials relating to Bazelon's application for his Guggenheim fellowship in 1967 – 1968. The research project on Law and Lawyers that he proposed for the fellowship involved an area of interest that continued throughout his subsequent literary and academic careers and that figured prominently in
Power in America, as well as in many of the articles he wrote, and in his contributions to the discussion of the "New Class." Also in the Rutgers sub-series is a file of clippings and correspondence documenting the "Arthur Kinoy Incident." Kinoy was an Rutgers Law professor who was arrested at the House Un-American Activities Hearings in 1966. Bazelon was among the members of the faculty who publicly supported Kinoy. The extensive sub-series devoted to Bazelon's career at SUNY Buffalo includes, besides correspondence and material relating to specific courses he taught, records of Bazelon's work toward establishing a doctoral program in Policy Studies at the University.The Law series includes class notes from law school courses at Yale University and incidental files from his work as an attorney in New York City from 1953 to 1958.
Most notable in the Personal series is the extensive collection of Bazelon's correspondence. Part of this collection is organized by individual correspondent and includes letters to Bazelon from the novelist James T. Farrell, to whom Bazelon wrote in 1942 seeking advice on his writing career. Farrell and Bazelon continued to correspond through 1944 and the collection includes forty letters with substantial content from Farrell. Bazelon's early correspondence also includes a large number of letters from the novelist and film-writer Calder Willingham and from the peace activist Robert Pickus, both of whom were college friends. Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, and Dwight MacDonald were other important early correspondents, the latter two as editors and friends involved in the early stages of Bazelon's career as a freelance writer. The Individual files of the Correspondence also includes over thirty years of letters (1937 – 1967) from Judge David L. Bazelon which supplement the letters included in the section of the Ghost-writing sub-series devoted to Bazelon's work with his uncle. The letters in the correspondence series deal mainly with the personal relationship between Bazelon and his uncle and document the judge's early efforts to assist David T. Bazelon's career.
The second part of the Correspondence series is arranged in chronological sub-sets of alphabetical series, according to Bazelon's original arrangement, i.e. 1944-1949 A-Z; 1950-1957 A-Z, etc.. This section includes letters from Bazelon's cousin, the composer Irwin Bazelon; Norman Podhoretz; the psychiatrist Leslie Faber; the sociologist Dennis Wrong; and many others. Throughout the correspondence files are occasional letters from editors such as Delmore Schwarz or Harold Hayes, who wrote to Bazelon about writing assignments. A small but substantial group of nine letters in the post-war chronology (1944-1949) are from former German officer and prisoner of war Horst Raczynski. In a sort of re-education program, Raczynski became a penpal with Bazelon to broaden his understanding of his own role in the war and non-German world views.
The personal series also includes files related to his wives and to his son, ephemera, family photographs, and financial records as they pertain to his freelance writing career. An item of tangential interest in the collection is an educational game designed by Jack Bazelon, David Bazelon's father, called "Cross-Number Puzzles: Decimals & Percent; Whole Numbers."
Boxes 1-27: Shelved in MSS record center cartons F161a, F161b, F606: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (17 inches) Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (32 inches) F64, F93: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversized galleys
Gift of David T. Bazelon, November 1996
Processed by Kevin Burke, July–September 2004. Encoded by Thomas Pulhamus, March 2010. Adidtional encoding by John Caldwell, September 2019.
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Includes a carbon copy of a draft of the Introduction with annotations and commentary by Midge Decter.
Arranged chronologically, "Articles" documents Bazelon's freelance career from 1946 through 1988. Files typically include drafts of articles and correspondence with editors. A large notebook contains clippings and notes for a projected book on O'Hara. The series also includes materials related to Bazelon speeches and conferences he attended. Most notable among the latter is the 50th anniversary conference of the American Library in Paris, with bilingual transcripts of Bazelon's discussion with French philosopher Paul Ricouer at the conference and a copy of John Kenneth Galbraith's keynote address. The series also contains four scrapbooks with clippings of Bazelon's work, starting with his earliest publication in the
New Republic, through May 1966. Note: does not include all of Bazelon's periodical publications from his more-than-forty-year career.published in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Comb.published in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Combpublished in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Combpublished in
Nothing But A Fine Tooth Comb.published in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Combpublished in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth CombSpeech given at Annual Conference of American Institute of Planners
published in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Combpublished in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Comb.documentary film on Joseph McCarthy produced by Emile de Antonio and Daniel Talbot. Bazelon contributed to the film's script and provided an introduction and epilogue to the book of the same title published by W. W. Norton. An excerpt from the epilogue was used as in the liner notes for the related release by Columbia Records. The folder includes drafts of the script, correspondence dealing with the production, and related material.
published in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Combpublished in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Combpublished in
Nothing But a Fine Tooth Combdrafts and corrections.
material on legal profession
review of
A Great Society? ed. Bertram M. Gross, New Republicfrom Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry
from
EsquireIncludes typescript of the review with annotations and comments by Norman Podhoretz.
correspondence, programs
clippings and other material
magazines
Includes early reading notes, notebooks, and journals, as well as a number of Bazelon's undergraduate essays and his early attempts at fiction. Also included are manuscripts and typescripts of articles not accepted for publication and not subsequently printed in Nothing But a Fine Tooth Comb. The collection contains material on a number of abandoned book projects, including a proposed book on celebrity in collaboration with the psychiatrist Leslie Faber and the critic Richard Schickel, and Bazelon's late effort, an extended essay entitled "How to Think about Power." Throughout his career, Bazelon also wrote autobiography, working in both fictional and non-fictional forms. The "1981 Autobiographical Package" constitutes an attempt to synthesize both published and unpublished autobiographical material written over the course of the previous forty years.
short stories
short stories
short story
short story
novel
"The Sovereign People": short story
Article on the Jewish-American novelist. Includes correspondence and an annotated copy of the typescript from
Commentary editor Robert Warshow.notes and research
play
clippings
correspondence and notes
Contains earlier material arranged for inclusion in a new autobiographical project.
typescript
drafts
notes and research
notes, correspondence
typescript
copy of typescript with corrections
copy of typescript without front matter
Submission to PEN Syndicated Fiction Project
Includes notes and commentary from Leslie Fiedler and Irving Howe whose opinions on the manuscript Bazelon had solicited
Physical Descriptionnotes, letters, etc.
original typescript
copy of typescript
drafts and research
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"The New Class Study" documents the progress of an ongoing intellectual discussion initiated in large part by Bazelon's article in the August, 1966 issue of
Commentary. The collection includes a copy of Commentary containing the 1966 article as well as issues of the magazine with articles, letters, and reviews that made significant contributions to the discussion. "The New Class" section of the Literary Work Series documents the evolution of the idea from transcriptions of taped conversations in 1962 involving Bazelon, the lawyer Bernard Rosenberg, and the writer F. William Howton, and early notes made by Bazelon. Bazelon's participation in the subsequent development of the discussion includes the text of a speech given by Bazelon at North Texas State University in 1968, and articles written for Urban Review in 1969 and for Dissent in 1979. Of particular interest is Bazelon's participation as advisor to the project that resulted in the volume The New Class? Ed. B. Bruce-Briggs (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1979). Bazelon received drafts of the essays published in the volume and the collection contains his annotations and commentaries on these drafts.taped discussions on proposed book on intellectuals, Tape #1
Proposed book on intellectuals.
Tape # 3
published as "New Factor in American Society" in
Environment and Change: The Next 50 Years, ed. William R. Ewald Jr.-early version of "The Idea of the New Class" in
Urban Reviewproposal and correspondence
Includes copies of drafts annotated by Bazelon of articles by Daniel Bell, Peter Berger, Andrew Hacker, and Michael Harrington.
Includes copies of drafts annotated by Bazelon of articles by Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Everett Carl Ladd, S.M. Lipset, Kevin Phillips, and Aaron Wildavsky.
Between 1959 and 1965, Bazelon worked as a ghostwriter for his uncle, Judge David L. Bazelon. David L. Bazelon sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1949 until his retirement in 1986. He was well-known for his opinions establishing the right of mentally ill patients to treatment, most notably the Durham decision in 1954. Bazelon was involved in the preparation of lectures and articles by his uncle. The files contained in this section of the series include, besides drafts of lectures and articles, the correspondence between Bazelon, his uncle, and third parties, including editors. There are also collections of clippings and reprints that served as background and research for the topics covered in the writing. Also included is "The Report of the Task Force on Law" of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation (1962) of which David L. Bazelon served as chairman. The Ghost-writing section of the series includes a folder with material related to a speech given by attorney Morris D. Liebman to the Law School of Northwestern University on which Bazelon worked. Finally, there is a folder of notes related to Bazelon's brief employment as a writer and interviewer for the Mike Wallace television show in the late 1950s.
Includes reprint of the Durham case (1954) in which Judge Bazelon "adopting a new test of criminal responsibility, held that if a defendant's unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect, he was not criminally responsible."
Request for funding for a research project culminating in a book on criminal responsibility. David L. Bazelon is named as Principal Investigator and David T. Bazelon as chief research and writing assistant.
Includes drafts of the article, notes, and correspondence
David L. Bazelon served as Chairman of the Task Force. File includes drafts of the Task Force's Report and correspondence
Includes drafts and typescript of lecture delivered by David L. Bazelon at Brandeis University, editorial correspondence with
The Atlantic Monthly regarding the magazine's subsequent publication of the lecture, and correspondence documenting the reception of the lecture.Drafts, Notes, and Correspondence
Includes Bazelon's notes for interviews with Sammy Davis Jr., Ben Gazzara, Alger Hiss, Hubert Humphrey, and others.
The research Files sub-series contains collections of clippings on subjects of interest to Bazelon over the course of his career organized according to the topic headings he himself assigned them.
"Televised Congressional Hearings," draft
"Televised Congressional Hearings," footnotes
"Congressional Hearings and Television," draft
"Congressional Hearings and Television," carbon
clippings and other material
Washington D.C.
Peace Research and Education Project, Ann Arbor MI
Center for Research on Conflict Resolution, U of Michigan
Biology, Philosophy, History, Sociology
History of Civilization, Statistics, Biological Sciences
Verbal Expression, Biological Science (University of Illinois)
Rutgers Law Professor and ACLU Attorney arrested at House Un-American Activities Commission Hearings
Grant proposal and Bibliographies
Background Material A-N (Lawyers last names)
Project (R-Z)
Autograph inscription to Bazelon
(ENGL 208)
student work
Bazelon material included in readings
School of Management, SUNY Buffalo
Indenture
Amended and Restated Loan Agreement
Other Forms for Corporate Meetings
Legal Papers and Memoranda Material related to Bazelon's work with the firm
Material related to Bazelon's work with the firm
Material related to work Bazelon did for the firm
Letters to David T. Bazelon comprises a record of Bazelon's professional and personal relationships over the course of more than fifty years. The first sub-series, Letters from Individuals, contains files organized by individual correspondents. Particularly significant in this group are the letters from Bazelon's uncle David L. Bazelon, a federal judge and early supporter of Bazelon's legal and writing careers. The letters from the novelist James T. Farrell, together with those from his friends, novelist and screen writer Calder Willingham (
Rambling Rose, The Graduate) and peace activist Robert Pickus (World Without War), document Bazelon's early intellectual development. Bazelon carried on a long term correspondence with the sociologist David Riesman. Reisman's letters discuss manuscripts sent to him by Bazelon. The chronological sub-series include letters from family and friends as well as professional correspondence. Bazelon's cousins, the composer Irwin Bazelon and psychiatrist Irving Harris, include discussions of family and personal matters together with discussions of their and Bazelon's professional activities. Other significant family correspondents include Bazelon's sister and brother-in-law Judith and Bernard Gross, Bazelon's parents, and his aunt and uncle Selma and Harry Mittelman. Professional correspondence includes exchanges with editors and letters from a number of the "New York Intellectuals" including Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Irving Kristol, Dorothy Rabinowotz, Leslie Faber, and others. Bazelon also exchanged letters regularly with the novelist William Humphrey and the critic Richard Schickel.Letters from Individuals (arranged in reverse chronological order)
Includes letters from David T. Bazelon's uncle, David L. Bazelon, who served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a pioneer in establishing the legal rights of mentally disabled defendants. Early letters from Judge Bazelon detail the interest he took in David T. Bazelon's career as a writer and a lawyer, as well as their personal relationship. Includes some carbon copies of David T. Bazelon's replies to his uncle's letters and some copies of letters sent to third parties.
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Discussing both his and Bazelon's early literary careers and their friendship.
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Letters from the novelist to Bazelon, written in response to Bazelon's request for advice from the older writer. Farrell's letters recommend reading and discuss a range of literary, philosophical, and political topics. Includes inlaid clippings and other printed material.
Includes pamphlets from The Civil Rights Defense Committee of which Farrell was Chairman.
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Includes material from The Civil Rights Defense Committee.
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Letters from Bazelon's friend, Eileen Geist, carbons of Bazelon's letters to Geist, and unsent letters. Much of the correspondence was carried on while Geist was residing in France.
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Personal and professional correspondence from the literary and social critic, Irving Howe (1920 – 1993). Many of the letters from Howe concern Bazelon's contributions to Howe's journal,
Dissent. Physical Description49 items
Letters from the editor, essayist, and critic Dwight MacDonald concerning Bazelon's contributions to MacDonald's journal, Politics. Also includes manuscripts of two Bazelon manuscripts edited by Macdonald
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Letters from Bazelon's friend Laura Monroe, long-time employee of the ACLU and wife of ACLU activist Eason Monroe (1909 – 1975)
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Letters from peace activist Robert Pickus, an early friend of Bazelon's.
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Includes material relating to Pickus' early pacifist work and material relating to the foundation of the World Without War Council in 1977.
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Includes letters from sociologist David Reisman with many comments by Riesman on Bazelon's writing.
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Includes letters from the novelist and screen writer, Calder Willingham, an early friend of Bazelon's whom he met when they were undergraduates at the University of Virginia.
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Correspondence becomes irregular after 1948.
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Includes letters from Bazelon's cousin, psychiatrist and author Irving Harris (b.1914)
Includes letters from Bazelon's cousin, composer Irwin "Buddy" Bazelon (1922 – 1995)
TLS from art critic Clement Greenberg asking Bazelon to review a book for the
Jewish Record; begins extensive correspondence with Judith and Bernard Gross, Bazelon's sister and brother-in-law.Includes letters from Irving Harris; 5 ALS from the poet Randall Jarrell regarding Bazelon's reviews for The Nation; ALS from Delmore Schwartz as an editor at Partisan Review rejecting a piece Bazelon had written on Dashiell Hammet; 2 ALS from "Margot," secretary for the French poet Jacques Prevert acknowledging the receipt of food and clothing packages sent by Bazelon.
Letters from former German officer and POW Horst Raczynski, a post-war "penpal"; John Sarkissian; and Erna and Fritz Sternberg, who introduced Raczynski to Bazelon.
Includes letters and cards from Lionel Trilling advising Bazelon on employment after graduation from Columbia, and agreeing to provide recommendations.
Includes TLS from Justice Hugo Black; ALS and card from the artist, Nell Blaine (1922 – 1996).
Includes TLS from future Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas informing Bazelon of the lack of an opening with Fortas' law firm.
Includes letters from Judith (sister) and Bernard Gross; letters from the novelist William Humphrey.
Includes letters from U.S. Representative Jacob Javits and the screen writer Peter Stone (1930 – 2003).
Includes ALS from the poet Theodore Weiss (1916 – 2003) and letters from the Canadian sociologist, Dennis Wrong (b. 1923).
Includes some carbons of Bazelon's letters.
Includes letters from Irwin Bazelon ("Buddy") and from Bazelon's parents.
Includes letters from the American political scientist Harlan Cleveland, then serving as Assistant Secretary of State, regarding a manuscript of
The Paper Economy sent to him by Bazelon; also, letters from Norman Podhoretz regarding Bazelon's submissions to Commentary.Includes letters from W.H. Ferry ("Ping") at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions with editorial comment on Bazelon's "paper economy" and other writings. Sharon and Howard Freeman
Includes letters from artist Max Gordon, Judith and Bernard Gross
Includes letters from Irving Harris; TNS from playwright Lillian Hellman acknowledging receipt of Bazelon's article on Dashiell Hammet; ACS from American philosopher Sidney Hook.
Includes Louis Kelso, economist Leon Keyserling
Includes TNS from
New Yorker editor Howard Moss declining publication of Bazelon's poetry.Includes TN from Dorothy Rabinowitz; letters regarding Bazelon's contributions to
The Reporter from editor Irving Kristol.Includes letters from American painter and poet Carolyn Stoloff (1927- ).
Includes letters from sociologist Dennis Wrong.
Includes letters from Irwin "Buddy" Bazelon and from Bazelon's parents.
Includes copy of letter to the editor by Dorothy Rabinowitz written in response to Bazelon's article "A Writer between Generations" (
Commentary, Feb. 1969); also letters from Norman Podhoretz as editor of Commentary regarding Bazelon's contributions to the magazine, and from Midge Decter with carbons of Bazelon's replies.Includes artist Max Gordon, note from Harold Hayes, editor of
Esquire, TNS from Leslie Fiedler; invitation to party hosted by Betty Friedan as a fund-raiser for Writers' and Editors' War Tax Protest with autograph note by Friedan.Includes letters from Irving Harris and William Humphrey.
Includes 2 TNS from writer Richard Kostelanetz soliciting material for an anthology.
Editorial correspondence with
Playboy, Random House, Redbook, etc.Includes letters from the critic Richard Schickel.
Includes letter from James Atlas seeking Bazelon's comments about Delmore Schwartz.
Includes letters from Irwin "Buddy" Bazelon and from Bazelon's parents.
Includes letters from Norman Podhoretz as editor of
Commentary.Includes letters from Midge Decter.
Includes wedding invitation from Leslie Fiedler; material from Betty Friedan's Economic Think Tank for Women.
Includes letters from Bernard and Judith Gross, Oscar Gass
Includes letters from Irving Harris and William Humphrey.
Includes minutes from "Second Lozins Think-In held at Vanxains, France, June 5, 1972" attended by Bazelon.
Includes letters from Richard Schickel and Peter Stone.
Includes cards from Irwin "Buddy" Bazelon
Includes letters from Bernard and Judith Gross, Irving Harris
Includes TNS from Richard Schickel
Includes TNS from Clement Greenberg
Includes TLS from Seymour Krim
Includes TNS from Norman Podhoretz, TLS from Richard Schickel
Includes cards from Irwin "Buddy" Bazelon
Includes cards from Barbara Ehrenreich, letter from Judith Gross
Includes cards and TLS from Richard Schickel
various correspondents
Honors Thesis, Wesleyan University
from game "Cross-Numbered Puzzle Boxes" designed by Bazelon's father, Jack Bazelon
Chicago, Bazelon class of June, 1940
including DTB bookings
Trans. Luiz Acacio Bueno de Camargo. Rio de Janeiro: Civilizacao Brasileira
Trans. Cesare Mannucci. Milan: Edizioni di Comunita
New York: Simon & Schuster
New York: Random House. Inscribed "For Jack and Florence, with all my love, David"
New York: Vintage Books
Include annotations and marked passages by Bazelon
New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Books
Bloomington: Indiana UP
New York: Frederick A. Praeger
New York: Seabury Press
Trans. Andrew Arato and Richard E. Allen. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
New York: American Elsevier,
New York: Vintage Books
Trans. Max Eastman. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company
Cross-Number Puzzles: Decimals & Percent; Whole Numbers
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Wedding ring in box