Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe, Alexander, Edward

Автор: Hunter Bob
Название: Thurberville
ISBN: 0814254039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814254035
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Описание: James Thurber's Columbus was not today's Columbus-or even yesterday's. It was a Columbus he both knew and created, a place perched on the fringe of reality and the fringe of his imagination. It is the place Bob Hunter revisits in Thurberville, a book where the author separates truth from fiction and identifies what parts of the famous humorist's hometown of 180,000 exist in the burgeoning metro area of more than two million today.
Thurber's Columbus was a wild and crazy place, a city full of fascinating and sometimes peculiar characters, many in his own family. Because of the widespread popularity of his stories, that was also the Columbus that many of his readers around the world came to know.
Thurberville chronicles those characters and explores that world. But it also examines the real city where Thurber struggled and then blossomed as a college student, worked as a newspaper reporter and a press agent, and achieved international fame as a humorist and cartoonist after he left town, in part by writing about the subjects he left behind.
Much of Thurber's best work was cultivated by experiences Thurber had in Columbus and in his dealings with family, friends, teachers, and acquaintances there. They are worth a revisit and, in some cases, an introduction.

Автор: Howe, Irving
Название: World of our fathers
ISBN: 0814736858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814736852
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Traces the story of Eastern Europe`s Jews to America and offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York. It is useful reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, and the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced.

Автор: Edward Alexander
Название: Irving Howe—Socialist, Critic, Jew
ISBN: 0253333644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253333643
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: " . . . scrupulous, fair-minded and richly-detailed study . . . the book charts one of the most remarkable intellectual careers of the 20th century's latter half. . . . What is most heartening about Mr. Alexander's biography is its exemplary civility and nuance in discussing ideas across the lines of political difference." —Nathan Glick, Washington Times
"Anyone interested in Howe's varied career, and the historical context that has given it its particular shape—American radicalism, the Cold War and anticommunism, the New Left, literary modernism, Jewish life—will profit handsomely from reading Alexander's respectful book." —Wilson Quarterly
"Edward Alexander's captivating study of Irving Howe is illuminating and
scrupulous; it is also temperate, generous, and deeply fair-minded. If
Howe were alive, he would thank the author—and even now, in Paradise, he
is surely doing so (while hotly continuing the discussion)." —Cynthia Ozick
" . . . a singular achievement." —Jerusalem Post
" . . . a masterpiece" —National Jewish Post and Opinion
". . . meticulous scholarship, felicitous writing style and a literate feistiness." —Chicago Jewish Star
"An excellent work of insight and criticism, recommended for academic libraries." —Library Journal
"An insightful, balanced contribution . . ." —Booklist
"Edward Alexander's estimable intellectual biography . . . studiously avoids both undue sentimentality and overly harsh censure." —Sanford Pinsker, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Edward Alexander's well-informed and engaging portrait of Irving Howe does full justice to the complexities of mind and the political passions of one of this country's leading intellectuals. This bracing, perceptive study honors Howe's admirable career by treating it with the same high degree of moral seriousness that characterized Howe's own work at its best." —Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Irving Howe, author of World of Our Fathers, the prize-winning history of American Jewish immigrant culture, and founding editor of the influential magazine Dissent, was for over 50 years a dominant—and controversial—figure in American intellectual life. Through a clear and eloquent study of Howe's politics, writings, and thought, Edward Alexander constructs a sympathetic yet critical intellectual biography of this complex individual.