Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America; A special publication devoted entirely to the voices and opinions of writers from Latin America
New York: Foundation for the Independent Study of Social Ideas. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10.25 inches. 88 pages. Two column format. Decorative front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Red number stamped on page 88. No dust jacket. Among the contributors are: Octavio Paz, Jorge Edwards, Carlos Franqui, Enrigue Krause, Jose Miguel Oviedo, Rodolfo Pastor, Charles Rangel, Gabriel Zaid, Juan E. Corradi, and dialogues with Ernesto Sabato. Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America. Known for literary criticism as well as social and political activism, Howe wrote critical biographies, a book length examination of the relation of politics to fiction, and theoretical essays on Modernism, the nature of fiction, and social Darwinism. His writing portrayed his dislike of capitalist America. He wrote many influential books throughout his career, such as Decline of the New, World of our Fathers, Politics and the Novel and his autobiography A Margin of Hope. He also wrote a biography of Leon Trotsky, who was one of his childhood heroes. Howe's exhaustive multidisciplinary history of Eastern European Jews in America, World of Our Fathers, is considered a classic of social analysis and general scholarship. Howe explores the socialist Jewish New York from which he came. He examines the dynamic of Eastern European Jews and the culture they created in America. World of our Fathers won the 1977 National Book Award in History and the National Jewish Book Award in the History category. The Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas publishes Dissent, a quarterly magazine of politics and ideas. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, Dissent quickly established itself as one of America’s leading intellectual journals and a mainstay of the democratic left. It has published articles by Hannah Arendt, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, A. Philip Randolph, Michael Harrington, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, Czes aw Mi osz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Chinua Achebe, Ellen Willis, Octavio Paz, Martha Nussbaum, Roxane Gay, and many others. Dissent is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. They publish political argument, and take pride in cultivating the next generation of labor journalists, cultural critics, and political polemicists. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Octavio Paz, Jorge Edwards, Carlos Franqui, Enrigue Krause, Jose Miguel Oviedo, Rodolfo Pastor, Charles Rangel, Gabriel Zaid, Juan E. Corradi, Ernesto Sabato, Latin America, Democracy, Chile, Capitalism, Argentina, Intellectuals, Nicaragua, Fidel Cas
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