Max Lerner, was once more than left-leaning. Go back to issues of the marxist journal, Science & Society, founded in 1936, and you'll find book reviews by Lerner till mid-way through WWII. Bill Moyers had an interview with him a few yrs. before he died on PBS where he was asked why he moved away from, "democratic collectivism." Forget his reply but, most of the rest of the Moyers then moved to Lerner's enthusiasm for New Age stuff like Marilyn Ferguson's, "aquarian conspiracy."
Dwight Macdonald, had a typically acerbic p.o.v. on Lerner's prose. Slightly better than James Gould Cozzens. Whozat? Only Carrol remembers. Michael Pugliese, "Ideas Have Consequences."
The Old Cause by Joseph Stromberg ... Dwight MacDonald, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (New York: Meridian Books, 1958). (The latter is worth reading, just for the description of the odious Max Lerner ... www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s013001.html
Fiction and 'Literary' Fiction ... Compare Myers to Dwight Macdonald, a ... of the 1950's. Macdonald's great 1958 essay, ''By Cozzens Possessed,'' eviscerated ... deservedly obscure James Gould Cozzens ... http://www.college3.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2001/09/09/866934.xml
Mises.org: Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land ... Saint Max. Fall 1999 MAX LERNER: PILGRIM IN THE PROMISED LAND Sanford Lakoff University of Chicago Press, 1998, xxi + 323 pgs. ... www.mises.org/misesreview_detail.asp?control=121&sortorder=issue
CSP - 'The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social ... ... pages. Contents: Foreword by Max Lerner, acknowledgments, introduction, 13 chapters ... The annals of the Aquarian Conspiracy are full of accounts ... www.csp.org/chrestomathy/aquarian_conspiracy.html