A New Life: Political Context
This project consists of two components:
Part I: Political Timeline
This timeline highlights key political events and provides the political atmosphere in which Bernard Malamud wrote A New Life.
Part II: A New Life as Seen in Historical Context
This page provides more information about the political environment of Corvallis in the 1950s, with focus on the dismissal of Ralph Spitzer. This page employs three main sections: Comments, General Politics, and Oregon State College Politics. Each section provides information through letters, which have been annotated, as well as passages and comments from the published novel and early manuscripts of A New Life that address the issues in these categories.