Irving Howe wrote: "The Americans failed...to see political life as an autonmous field of action.... Personalizing everything, they could not quite do justice to the life of politics in its own right.... Personalizing everything, they could brilliantly observe how social and individual experience melt into one another so that the deformations of the one soon become the deformations the other." (Politics and the Novel, 1957; reprint, New York: Columbia University Press, 1992, pp. 162-63.)
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