"For nearly a century, Scofield Thayer has remained a somewhat shadowy figure in the history of modernism. But James Dempsey has at last illuminated Thayer's passionate, intense, and agonizing story."--Barry Ahearn, editor of The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky "As no other book has done before, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer places Thayer's contribution to modernism as editor of The Dial in...