Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) was an American writer, critic, activist, editor of Partisan Review, and founder of Politics. He wrote for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and other publications.
John Summers is a historian, the author of Every Fury on Earth, and the editor of four books, including Dwight Macdonald's Masscult and Midcult. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.