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Growing up with a stutter in nineteen-twenties Brownsville, Alfred Kazin eschewed both gangs and "movements" in favor of reading and writing, a preference for the literary over the polemical that fuelled a singular, sixty-year career in American letters. His first book, the literary study "On Native Grounds," was written in the reading room of the New York Public Library between breaks for Ping-Pong at local pool halls; its publication, in 1942, was hailed as "not only a literary but a moral ...