Irving Howe : a life of passionate dissent / Gerald Sorin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorin, Gerald, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Howe, Irving.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Jews.

Critics--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Critics.

Jewish radicals--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Jewish radicals.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A New York Times "Books for Summer Reading" selection. Winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for History. By the time he died in 1993 at the age of 73, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century's most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular Jewishness, ardently devoted to fiction and poetry, in love with baseball, music, and ballet, Howe wrote with such eloquence and lived with such conviction that his extraordinary work is now part of the canon of American social thought. In the first comprehensive biography of Howe's life, historian Ger

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 The Trauma of Sharply Fallen Circumstances: World of Our Fathers; 2 Illusions of Power and Coherence at CCNY: World of College Politics in the 1930's; 3 The Second World War and the Myopia of Socialist Sectarianism; 4 The Postwar World and the Reconquest of Jewishness; 5 Toward a "World More Attractive"; 6 The Origins of Dissent; 7 The Age of Conformity; 8 The Growth of Dissent and the Breakup of the Fifties; 9 More Breakups; 10 The Turmoil of Engagement: The Sixties: Part 1; 11 Escalation and Polarization: The Sixties: Part 2; 12 Retrospection and Celebration

13 Sober Self-Reflections: Democratic Radical, Literary Critic, Secular Jew Notes; Glossary; References; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814740774

0814740774

9780814708842

0814708846

9788147407746

8147407742

9781417588374

1417588373

OCLC:

782877901