LEADER 03512nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910820288903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-4077-4 010 $a0-8147-0884-6 010 $a81-474-0774-2 010 $a1-4175-8837-3 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814708842 035 $a(CKB)1000000000031466 035 $a(EBL)865345 035 $a(OCoLC)782877901 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000183879 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11939049 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183879 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10195669 035 $a(PQKB)11772132 035 $a(OCoLC)58840763 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10922 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865345 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10078480 035 $a(DE-B1597)547971 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814708842 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865345 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000031466 100 $a20020530d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIrving Howe $ea life of passionate dissent /$fGerald Sorin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4020-0 311 $a0-8147-9821-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a13 Sober Self-Reflections: Democratic Radical, Literary Critic, Secular Jew Notes; Glossary; References; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author 330 $aA 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 606 $aJews$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aCritics$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aJewish radicals$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aJews$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xIntellectual life 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xIntellectual life 615 0$aJews 615 0$aCritics 615 0$aJewish radicals 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life. 676 $a974.7/100492/0092 676 $aB 700 $aSorin$b Gerald$f1940-$0458825 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820288903321 996 $aIrving Howe$94101870 997 $aUNINA