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 [First Page] [227], (1) Lines: 0 to 8 ——— 12.715pt ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [227], (1) Source Acknowledgments Nicholas Howe, “Reading Irving Howe” (foreword), is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. John Rodden, “Irving Howe, Triple Thinker,” is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. Mark Levinson and Brian Morton, “A Man of the Left,” first appeared in New Left Review (Summer 1993): 111–14, and is reprinted with permission of the authors. Ronald Radosh, “Journey of a Social Democrat,” was first published as “On Irving Howe” in Partisan Review 60, no. 3 (1993): 343, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Ian Williams, “An Ex-Maoist Looks at an Ex-Trotskyist: On Howe’s Leon Trotsky,” is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. Samuel Hux, “Our ‘Uncle Irving’: Howe’s Conservative Strain,” first appeared in Modern Age (Summer 1995): 330–36, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Marshall Berman, “Irving and the New Left: From Fighter to Leader,” originally appeared in Dissent (Fall 1993): 519–20, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Alexander Cockburn, “Irving Howe, R.I.P.: A Few Tasteless Words,” first appeared in the Nation, June 14, 1993, 822, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Joseph Epstein, “The Old People’s Socialist League,” was originally published in Commentary (August 1998): 41–46, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Robert Boyers, “Politics and the Critic,” is a previously unpublished essay (originallyentitled “RememberingIrvingHowe”),printedwithpermissionoftheauthor. Nathan Glick, “The Socialist Who Loved Keats,” was originally published in Atlantic Monthly (January 1998): 99–105, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Nicholas Howe, “A Lover of Stories,” first appeared in Dissent (Fall 1993): 532–33, and is reprinted with permission of the author. 228 Source Acknowledgments 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 [Last Page] [228], (2) Lines: 80 ——— 31.42pt ——— Normal P PgEnds: [228], (2) Brian Morton, “The Literary Craftsman,” first appeared in Dissent (Fall 1993): 543–44, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Paul Roazen, “How Irving Howe Shaped My Thinking Life,” is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. JohnRodden,“ ‘MyIntellectualHero’:IrvingHowe’s‘Partisan’Orwell,”isadapted, in part, from chapter 6 of The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of “St. George” Orwell (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) and is printed with permission of the author. William E. Cain, “Howe on Emerson: The Politics of Literary Criticism,” is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. George Scialabba, “Howe Inside My Head,” first appeared in Harvard Review (Fall 1993) as “A Tired Hero, at Rest” and is reprinted with permission of the author. Morris Dickstein, “World of Our Grandparents,” was first published in a shorter version in the New York Times Book Review, April 6, 1997, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Leonard Kriegel, “Father Figures,” first appeared in Partisan Review 43, no. 4 (1976): 619–21, as “Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers” and is reprinted with permission of the author. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, “Of Yiddish Culture and Secular Jewishness,” first appeared in Midstream (October 1976): 80–86, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Edward Alexander, “Standing Guard over Irving Howe’s Reputation; Or, Good Causes Attract Bad Advocates,” is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. Leon Wieseltier, “Irving, In Memoriam,” first appeared in the NewYorkTimes Book Review, May 20, 1993, and is reprinted with permission of the author. Gerald Sorin, “The Relevance of Irving Howe,” is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. Michael Levenson, “A Steady Worker,” is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. Morris Dickstein, “Irving Howe: Finding the Right Words” (afterword), is a previously unpublished essay, printed with permission of the author. Copyright © 2004 by Morris Dickstein. John Rodden, “Wanted by the fbi: No. 727437b a.k.a. Irving Horenstein, ‘An Immature Outlook on Life,’ ” previously appeared in Dissent (Fall 2002...