Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent

by Gerald Sorin

Book Overview

A New York Times "Books for Summer Reading" selection
Winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for History
By 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 Jewishness, ardently devoted to fiction and poetry, in love with baseball, music, and ballet, Howe wrote with such eloquence and lived with such conviction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814798217
• ISBN13: 9780814798218
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 8.8"