Irving Howe : : A Life of Passionate Dissent /

Irving Howe : : A Life of Passionate Dissent / / Gerald Sorin.

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A New York Times “Books for Summer Reading” selectionWinner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for HistoryBy 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 Jewishn...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Sorin, Gerald,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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 1930s
  • 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
  • 13 Sober Self-Reflections: Democratic Radical, Literary Critic, Secular Jew
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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