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Article: Opposition As True Friendship: Edward Alexander and Irving Howe.(Review)
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Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew. By EDWARD ALEXANDER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
To ask those born after the 1940s what position a public intellectual should assume is to risk, at the very least, being labeled quaint; these days intellectuals have repudiated principled positions for alliance with trendy coteries. But for over fifty years, Irving Howe enjoyed a central and commanding place in American intellectual life. Unlike many of those these days who fancy themselves intellectuals, Howe's interests were neither fixed nor narrow. They ranged from the political to the cultural and encompassed not only issues about American culture and the ...
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... ... Without Gifts"' THE LAST LETTER IRVING HOWE WROTE TO ME WAS dated April 30, 1993 ... must remember that this is the same Irving Howe who had, at least as early as 1953 ... hatred among other socialists than did Irving Howe. Who but he, among socialists, would ...
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