Information AboutIrving Howe |
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Howe graduated from City College in 1940 . He entered radical politics as a member of the Young People's Socialist League and through it graduated to Max Shachtman 's Workers Party and after 1948 the Independent Socialist League of which he was a central leader. He then left the ISL to become the founding editor of '' Dissent '' magazine. He also co-founded the Democratic Socialists Of America . He was the Distinguished Professor of Literature, City University Of New York ( CUNY ) and a noted editor of Yiddish literature who discovered the author Isaac Bashevis Singer for an English-speaking audience. Howe is regarded as one of the " New York Intellectuals ". He wrote an autobiography '' A Margin Of Hope '' ( 1982 ISBN 0151571384) as well as many other works, such as '' World Of Our Fathers '' ISBN 0-8052-0928-X and '' Socialism And America ''. QUOTES
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