Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 [-7], (7) Lines: 120 to ——— 1.25488pt ——— Normal Page * PgEnds: PageB [-7], (7) Contents List of Illustrations, ix Nicholas Howe, Foreword: Reading Irving Howe, xi Preface, xix John Rodden, Introduction: Irving Howe, Triple Thinker, 1 Socialist 1. Mark Levinson and Brian Morton, A Man of the Left, 27 2. Ronald Radosh, Journey of a Social Democrat, 32 3. Ian Williams, An Ex-Maoist Looks at an Ex-Trotskyist: On Howe’s Leon Trotsky, 37 4. Samuel Hux, Our “Uncle Irving”: Howe’s Conservative Strain, 48 5. Marshall Berman, Irving and the New Left: From Fighter to Leader, 57 6. Alexander Cockburn, Irving Howe, R.I.P.: A Few Tasteless Words, 62 7. Joseph Epstein, The Old People’s Socialist League, 64 Critic 8. Robert Boyers, Politics and the Critic, 77 9. Nathan Glick, The Socialist Who Loved Keats, 96 10. Nicholas Howe, A Lover of Stories, 108 11. Brian Morton, The Literary Craftsman, 112 12. Paul Roazen, How Irving Howe Shaped My Thinking Life, 114 13. John Rodden, “My Intellectual Hero”: Irving Howe’s “Partisan” Orwell, 117 14. William E. Cain, Howe on Emerson: The Politics of Literary Criticism, 132 15. George Scialabba, Howe Inside My Head, 143 viii Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 [-8], (8) Lines: 188 ——— * 275.91452pt ——— Normal P * PgEnds: [-8], (8) Jew 16. Morris Dickstein, World of Our Grandparents, 149 17. Leonard Kriegel, Father Figures, 156 18. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Of Yiddish Culture and Secular Jewishness, 163 19. Edward Alexander, Standing Guard over Irving Howe’s Reputation; Or, Good Causes Attract Bad Advocates, 173 20. Leon Wieseltier, Irving, In Memoriam, 179 Revaluations 21. Gerald Sorin, The Relevance of Irving Howe, 185 22. Michael Levenson, A Steady Worker, 190 Morris Dickstein, Afterword: Irving Howe: Finding the Right Words, 201 John Rodden, Appendix: Wanted by the fbi: No. 727437b a.k.a. Irving Horenstein, 213 Source Acknowledgments, 227 Index, 229 ...