Angoff, Charles. “Oswald Garrison Villard and The Nation: A Memoir. Antioch Review 23, no. 2 (summer 1963): 232-40.

In the following essay, Angoff relates his own personal experiences with Oswald Garrison Villard, both positive and negative.

I was editor of the Nation for less than a year, only about eight months, in 1935, and was unhappy there. That is twenty-eight years ago, and whatever personal ill-feeling I may have had, I believe, has disappeared. I was unhappy largely because I was disappointed. I had for years had a large respect, nay, an awe of that magazine and its editors. In Harvard, it, along with the New Republic, was my way-shower in the realms of politics and economics and the arts, especially literature. Carl Van Doren and Ludwig Lewisohn and “The Drifter” and Oswald Garrison Villard—these and others told me pretty much what I thought and what I argued for. I took...