Oral history interview with Irving Howe, circa 1993

Scope and Contents

Youth, East Bronx, poverty, politics, effects of Depression, Jewish radicalism in neighborhood; Young People's Socialist League (YPSL); City College of New York (CCNY), politics, daily routines, engineers at, Rapp Coudert; anticommunism and anti-Stalinism; Communist student control of campus organizations; reaction to Communism, Hitler-Stalin Pact, role in unions; United States Army 1942-46; New York intellectuals 1950s; Dissent Magazine, founding of, editorial policies of, authors; anti-McCarthyism; defense of academic freedom; New Left and old left; continuing socialist commitment

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Howe, Irving--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman