Love in the Promised Land
Subtitle: the story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey
By: Mary V. Dearborn.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Dewey, John, 1859-1952 -- Friends and associates.; Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970 -- Relations with men.; Philosophers -- United States -- Biography.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Description: This volume is a dual biography Poland-born, American novelist Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970) and American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey (1859-1952). It presents an account of the secret love affair between a young immigrant writer and a New England intellectual who fell deeply but briefly in love and who were both irrevocably changed by their short-lived merging of old and new world ways.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 178-204.
Includes index.