Irving Howe
Subtitle: socialist, critic, Jew
By: Edward Alexander.
Series: Jewish literature and culture
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Howe, Irving.; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Jewish critics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Jewish radicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
Genres: Biography.
Description: For over fifty years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to Yiddish literature, the State of Israel, the condition of the American academy, and New York cultural and literary life.

Best known for his prize-winning history of American Jewish immigrant culture, World of Our Fathers, Howe was an outspoken socialist as well as founder and editor of the democratic socialist magazine Dissent. Through a clear, eloquent, and forcefully argued study of Howe's politics, writings, and thought, Edward Alexander constructs a sympathetic yet critical intellectual biography of this complex individual.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-276) and index.