My Work on World of Our Fathers.

From: American Jewish History | Date: December 1, 2000| Author: LIBO, KENNETH | Copyright information

By the time I met Irving Howe in the mid-sixties as a graduate student at Hunter College, he was an established literary and social critic, political analyst, and supporter of socialism. What I admired most about Irving at the time was his combination of tough-minded realism and sustained hopefulness as he strove in his way to improve the human condition by advancing Enlightenment goals of equality, fraternity, and progress. A frequent contributor to the New Republic, the New York ...

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