Irving Howe
Subtitle: A Life of Passionate Dissent
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780814798218
Subjects: Biography: general; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Literary; Howe, Irving; Intellectual History; Jews In The U.S.; New York (State); Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; New York; United States - 20th Century; Historical - General; Biography; Critics; Jewish radicals; Jews
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.