On the Contrary

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480441194

<DIV><DIV><b>Mary McCarthy, one of our most brilliant and beloved authors, serves up wit, insight, and her unique worldview in this diverse collection of essays</b></div><DIV><BR>In provocatively titled pieces such as &ldquo;The Contagion of Ideas,&rdquo; &ldquo;Tyranny of the Orgasm,&rdquo; and &ldquo;No News,&#160;<i>or</i>,What Killed the Dog,&rdquo; Mary McCarthy expresses her frank, unflinching, often contrarian point of view.</div><DIV><BR>Nothing&mdash;and no one&mdash;is safe from her merciless writer&rsquo;s eye&mdash;from politics to the ever-changing social scene to the strengths and weaknesses of her native country, where she believes &ldquo;passivity and not aggressiveness is the dominant trait of the American character.&rdquo;&#160;<i>On the Contrary&#160;</i>also features a cast of memorable characters. In &ldquo;Naming Names,&rdquo; Arthur Miller&rsquo;s testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee results in an indictment for contempt of Congress. McCarthy reviews&#160;<i>The Human Condition</i>, Hannah Arendt&rsquo;s breakthrough book, and despairs of finding a &ldquo;really American place&rdquo; to take a visiting existentialist&mdash;a thinly disguised Simone de Beauvoir? &#160;</div><DIV><BR>From Dickens to Gandhi to the Kinsey Reports, with pithy and wide-ranging articles on everything from fashion to fiction, the human condition, religion, and sex,&#160;<i>On the Contrary&#160;</i>raises controversial questions to which, even today, there are no easy answers.</div><BR>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author&rsquo;s estate. &#160; &#160;</div>