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A Life of Passionate Dissent

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An edition of Irving Howe (2002)

Irving Howe

A Life of Passionate Dissent

"By the time he died in 1993 at the age of seventy-three, 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 Gerald Sorin brings us close to this man who rose from Jewish immigrant poverty of the 1930s to become one of the most provocative intellectuals of our time.

Known most widely for his award-winning book World of Our Fathers, a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, Howe also won acclaim for his prodigious output of illuminating essays on American culture and as an indefatigable promoter of democratic socialism as can be seen in the pages of Dissent, the journal he edited for nearly forty years."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
NYU Press
Language
English
Pages
416

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Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent
April 1, 2005, NYU Press
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Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent
January 1, 2003, NYU Press
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2002, New York University Press
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First Sentence

"IN ONE OF those odd coincidences of "Jewish geography," David Horenstein and Nettie Goldman, Irving Howe's parents, had lived as teenagers in the shtetlekh of Bukovina (between Russia and Romania), and had arrived in the United States in 1912 on the same boat."

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
416
Dimensions
8.8 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.6 pounds

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL8046235M
ISBN 10
0814798217
ISBN 13
9780814798218
LibraryThing
2414960
Goodreads
1662733

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3284622W

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IN ONE OF those odd coincidences of "Jewish geography," David Horenstein and Nettie Goldman, Irving Howe's parents, had lived as teenagers in the shtetlekh of Bukovina (between Russia and Romania), and had arrived in the United States in 1912 on the same boat.
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