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...Thomas Bender...
What saves Thomas Bender's history of New York intellectuals is that it is not just a history. The chapters on colonial New York make mountains out of intellectual molehills, as Bender imbues small social clubs--with grandiose missions and Latin mottos--with meaning well beyond what they deserve...
...know that things didn't get going, intellectually speaking, in the great metropolis until a century later. But Bender doesn't focus on these early years. Rather, he uses the colonial history to underline the central choice for New York intellectuals: whether to be isolated academics or cosmopolitan thinkers...
...Bender illustrates the tension between the two options with short yet detailed biographies of key New York intellectuals. He follows career changes, from professor to magazine editor, government official to man about town...
...Bender tallied the final point for the Elis' victory...