Irving Howe A Life of Passionate Dissent

"[Sorin] portrays Howe the tough political fighter alongside the brilliant writer and generous friend. An empathetic biographer, Sorin sets out to understand Howe rather than to judge him. This is, on the whole a good thing. But there are times when Sorin's own voice seems to blur into Howe's, when the author's evident admiration for his subject becomes so deferential that one wishes for a bit more of Howe's own passionate critical intensity....Sorin has built a solid portrait of the writer and critic, and if he never quite presents us with an overall vision of Howe and his world, he does a very good job of illuminating the relationship between politics and literature in Howe's intellectual life...."Sorin, Gerald is the author of 'Irving Howe A Life of Passionate Dissent' with ISBN 9780814740200 and ISBN 0814740200.