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Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe

Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe

Irving Howe

Presented here is a compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life that could be viewed as the sequel to his intellectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope.
Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

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Irving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920?93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation.
Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent

Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent

Gerald Sorin

To have lived a life of conviction and engagement in that era was a notable achievement. Irving Howe lived such a life and Gerald Sorin has done a masterful job of guiding us through it in all its passion and complexity.
A Critic's Notebook

A Critic's Notebook

Irving Howe

This collection of accessible, idiosyncratic essays explores such enduring literary concepts as character, style, tone, and genre. All have their origin in Howe's passion, moral striving, and abiding faith in the common reader.
Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson

Irving Howe

A biography of the American writer, relating the events of his life to the themes and quality of his works
A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography

A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography

Irving Howe

A candid, perceptive narrative of the author's East Bronx childhood, his education, and his experiences and activities as an increasingly influential writer, editor, and teacher
John Howe Fantasy Art Workshop

John Howe Fantasy Art Workshop

John Howe

''Here's how I do it, and why'' This is the premise behind John Howe's first practical exploration of his artistic inspirations, approaches and techniques.
Irving Howe -- Socialist, Critic, Jew

Irving Howe -- Socialist, Critic, Jew

Edward Alexander

"... scrupulous, fair-minded and richly-detailed study... the book charts one of the most remarkable intellectual careers of the 20th century's latter half.
The Works of the Rev. John Howe with Memoirs on His Life

The Works of the Rev. John Howe with Memoirs on His Life

John Howe

John Howe, Edmund Calamy. '. ** o reh * . |- - : o *. 'That they professed their grateful sense of his highness's hazardous and heroical expedition, which the favour of Heaven had made so surprisingly prosperous. 'That they esteemed it a  ...
Corn Palaces and Butter Queens: A History of Crop Art and ...

Corn Palaces and Butter Queens: A History of Crop Art and ...

Pamela Hemenway Simpson

The complete letter is reproduced in Jeanne Snodgrass King, “The Preeminence of Oscar Howe,” in Dockstader, Oscar Howe. A lengthier analytical treatment of this shift is in White, “Oscar Howe and the Transformation.” Karen Iverson ...
American Jewish History

American Jewish History

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In the end, however, it should be remembered that because the Skokie survivors resolutely insisted "Never Again," the Nazis never did come to Skokie. Jerold S. Auerbach Wellesley College Book Reviews Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew.
Joe Howe to the Rescue

Joe Howe to the Rescue

Michael Bawtree

Joe Howe to the Rescue weaves together the true story of Joe Howe's fight for freedom of the press with the exciting fictional story of his printer's boy.
Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium

Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium

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From e. e. cummings, who championed George Herriman's Krazy Kat, to Irving Howe, who fretted about Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie, this volume shows that comics have provided a key battleground in the culture wars for over a century.
Something about the Author

Something about the Author

Donna Olendorf

Photograph courtesy of Constance Hiser. JAMES HOWE. Illustration from Howliday Inn, by James Howe. Avon Books, 1983. Copyright © 1982 by James Howe. Pictures copyright © 1982 by Atheneum Publishers, Inc. Illustrations by Lynn ...
The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since World War II

The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since World War II

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JOAN SHELLEY RUBIN Two SCENARIOS currently dominate historical accounts of American literary and cultural criticism in the decades immediately following the Second World War. Taking off from the position Irving Howe articulated in his  ...
World of Our Fathers

World of Our Fathers

Irving Howe

A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades.
Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and ...

Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and ...

Barlow, Maude

167 Miles Howe, a journalist with the Halifax Media Coop and author of 2015's Debriefing Elsipogtog: The Anatomy of a Struggle, wrote that the situation was provoked by the Irving Oil–owned private security forces who provided the main ...
The Hermaphrodite

The Hermaphrodite

Julia Ward Howe

The novel allowed Howe, and will now allow her readers, to occupy a speculative realm otherwise inaccessible in her historical moment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Included here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman.
Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street and Into The 60s

Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street and Into The 60s

Irving Sandler

The critic and curator Irving Sandler was a key figure as a critic and friend to many artists as well as an employee of the influential Tanager gallery. Sandler was also an active presence at the famous Artists Club.
Excerpts From: Ernest Kaiser, A Critical Look at Ellison's ...

Excerpts From: Ernest Kaiser, A Critical Look at Ellison's ...

Ernest Kaiser

" Summarizes omitted passages. Examines the novel "Invisible Man." Highlights the views of critic Irving Howe. Links to other information on African-American author Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) and 1950s America.
Gordie Howe's Son

Gordie Howe's Son

Mark Howe

Featuring many never-before-published photographs of the Howes, this is a book about hockey's royal family told through the career of its Hall of Fame son.
The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge

THE EIGHT JOURNALS PUBLISHED IN THIS VOLUME, with entries dated between September 18, 1878, and December 18, 1880, are Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge's personal record of an eventful period in his career as a United ...
The English Guernsey Cattle Society's Herd Book

The English Guernsey Cattle Society's Herd Book

English Guernsey Cattle Society

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Designers Don't Have Influences

Designers Don't Have Influences

Austin Howe

Creative director, writer, advocate, and design cheerleader Austin Howe’s elegant, incisive, and amusing essays are sure to appeal to a wide spectrum of readers.

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