Irving Howe
Subtitle: A Life of Passionate Dissent
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780814740200
Subjects: Biography: general; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Social Scientists & Psychologists
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.