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Irving Howe Information
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 Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993), was American literary and social critic. He was born as Irving Horenstein in New York, as a son of immigrants who ran a small grocery store that went out of business during the Great Depression. Like...




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 The Nation
Irving Howe. (Obituary)
06/07/1993: 771 words, approx. 3 pages Irving Howe was one of the last and one of the best of that remarkable group of high-scoring point-makers who have come to be known as the New York Intellectuals. Coming to New York in 1960 when most of them were at the...
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Irving Howe and the literary criticism that matters.
07/01/2004: 2,777 words, approx. 9 pages The late Irving Howe is best known for World of Our Fathers, his encyclopedic study of immigrant Jewry on the mean streets of the Lower East Side. But Howe remains important for more than a single book, however brilliant its scholarship or impassioned...
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Files reveal struggles of The New Leader
2/3/2007: 1,028 words, approx. 3 pages George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...
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Files show magazine's struggle
2/3/2007: 1,028 words, approx. 3 pages George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Sanford Pinsker
5,157 words, approx. 17 pages
 Pinsker is an American educator and critic who has written extensively on Jewish-American literature. In the essay below, he presents an overview of the recurring themes in Howe's writings.
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Critical Review by C. Vann Woodward
4,402 words, approx. 15 pages
 Woodward is an American educator and historian who is best known for Origins of the New South: 1877–1913 (1951). In the following review, he discusses Howe's explanation of the failure of socialism in the United States.
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Critical Review by Leo Marx
3,618 words, approx. 12 pages
 Marx is an American educator and critic. In the following review of The American Newness originally published in 1987 in The New York Times, he critiques Howe's thoughts on Ralph Waldo Emerson's individualist philosophy.


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