The 50 Year Argument | movie | 2014 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America? | dG1fNUZtSHVpbzRDLXM

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00:00As long as we could pay the printer, we could publish anything we wanted.

00:07The review was based on the idea that highly skillful, intelligent people can write about any subject.

00:15I remember in New York Review of Books that my dad kept next to his Playboy and his Newsweek.

00:20The New York Review of Books actually mattered as a crucial part of our lives.

00:25We were not seeking to be part of an establishment. We were seeking to examine establishments.

00:32Magazines don't change the world, but they shape a certain kind of climate of ideas.