First-class friendship The letters of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy hold a remarkable relationship between the lines

From: The Boston Globe | Date: 1/29/1995 | Author: Gail Caldwell, Globe Staff

BETWEEN FRIENDS

The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy,

1949-1975.

Edited by Carol Brightman. Harcourt Brace. 412 pp. $34.95.

Gail Caldwell is book editor of the Globe.

One was haughty and yet intuitively gracious, a mix of bristle and intelligence that could knock the breath out of her adversaries -- and she had more than a few. The other was almost formidably wise: a survivor of the Third Reich and a student of Heidegger, as brilliant and courageous a thinker as ...

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