Irving Howe (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerald Sorin
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Literary biography and literary history
- Time of Work: 1920-1993
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Irving Howe, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Michael Harrington
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Politics, Socialism, Twentieth century, New York City, Literature, Immigration or emigration, Jews or Jewish life
- Locales: New York, NY
In addition to presenting the intellectual, historical, and personal elements in Irving Howe’s long and productive life, author Gerald Sorin also uses this biography to trace three passions that fed Howe’s thought: socialism, literature, and Jewishness. Sorin’s analysis of the relationships among these three elements emerges within the pages of the biography. Irving Howe is a tribute to Howe himself, to the importance of intelligent political passion, and to the necessity of dissent in a vital democracy.
Howe’s overriding commitment to democratic socialism emerged...
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