| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Canada and the United States

Gerald Sorin. Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent. New York: New York University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 386. $32.95.

One of the more important movements among twentieth-century intellectuals was the sharp right turn taken, especially after the 1967 war in the Middle East, by many of the leading New York intellectuals, those writers of Jewish descent who had written for Partisan Review and Commentary during the 1940s and 1950s. Their articulation of a neoconservative agenda and their achievement of influence with the rising conservative movement in the Republican Party transformed American politics and perhaps the world. Irving Howe declined that path; indeed, he vigorously challenged it, beginning in the 1950s.

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