In Re: Sidney Hook
A short letter to the editor of Dissent in which Mailer declines to recant his "facetious" description of Sidney Hook — in "The Meaning of 'Western Defense'" (54.1) — as a "liberal-with-muscles."
“In Re: Sidney Hook.” Letter to the editor. Dissent 1 (summer 1954), 303.
Mailer refuses to recant his “facetious” description of Sidney Hook in “The Meaning of ‘Western Defense’” (54.1) as a “liberal-with-muscles.” He ends by saying that if Hook is “an almost lone philosophical defender of democratic socialist and humanist values, it makes me Leo Tolstoy”.