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A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography
by
Irving Howe
A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Our Fathers-looks back on his life from the early 1930s through the 1970s. A perceptive account of Howe's intellectual growth. Index.
Paperback
,
372 pages
Published
April 16th 1984
by Mariner Books
(first published 1982)
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I've heard many stories about how Howe was often a miserable person to be around or to have as a comrade. And he definitely comes off as pompous and just generally annoying in this book. But even when he's coming off as a dick, and even when he's very, very wrong on political questions, he's such a pleasure to read.
I think the best part of the book is in the first quarter, when he's describing his time as a Trotskyist. His insights on life in a sect are packed incredibly densely into the pages, ...more
I think the best part of the book is in the first quarter, when he's describing his time as a Trotskyist. His insights on life in a sect are packed incredibly densely into the pages, ...more
Generally gorgeous and perfectly retrained, read for the accident in geography and subtle polemic guns.
So supercilious but really pleasurable reading. Must be ready to nerd out about 20th century American intellectual history to enjoy.
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Irving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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