Irving Howe: a Life of Passionate Dissent

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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.;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 that his extraordinary work is now part of the canon of American social thought. In the first comprehensive biography of Howe's life, historian Ger. 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 JewNotes Glossary References Acknowledgments Index About the Author.