doi:10.7916/d8-8mwr-ay46Oral history interview with Irving Howe, circa 1993Howe, Irvingoral historiesvideo recordingsmoving imageNew York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th centuryHowe, IrvingYouth, 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