Jack Salzman, Author, Gretchen S. Sorin, Author, Irving Howe, Author George Braziller $45 (271p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1279-8
With contributions by black and Jewish scholars, journalists and leaders, this illustrated companion volume to a traveling exhibition is a Milquetoast of a work. It busies itself with glorifying a black-Jewish common history of suffering,...
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Irving Howe, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $34.95 (490p) ISBN 978-0-15-180390-3
Here we see one of the shrewdest, most civilized minds of our day in the interpenetrating roles of literary, social and political critic. In Howe's discussions of individual writers, one is struck by the rightness of his apercus: Celine, ``maestro...
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Irving Howe, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-15-183575-1
In a balanced, dispassionate analysis, Howe looks at the prospects and pitfalls of socialism in America. He recalls the 1920s when America's populist faith made socialist leader Eugene Debs as popular with Lower East Side immigrant Jews as he was...
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Irving Howe, Author, Michael Walzer, Foreword by Mariner Books $35.95 (516p) ISBN 978-0-15-680636-7
Fire, insight and humanity characterize National Book Award-winner Howe's essays on individual authors, the Reagan era and the failures of liberalism and socialism in America. (Apr.)
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Irving Howe, Author, Nicholas Howe, Introduction by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-15-119949-5
Howe ( World of Our Fathers ), who died in 1993, wrote frequently about literature in Dissent , the left-wing journal he edited for many years. Although several of the essays assembled here, written late in Howe's life, have been published...
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