Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer

by David Denby

Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life.

They worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then, they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a common temperament. For all four, their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250193400
• ISBN13: 9781250193407
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"