Love in the Promised Land : the story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey
Title:
Love in the Promised Land : the story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey
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Publication Date as Range:
1988
ISBN:
9780029080900
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, ©1988.
Physical Description:
xii, 212 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents:
Dewey : the making of the philosopher -- Yezierska : the making of the Teacherin -- Dewey, 1894-1904 : the Chicago years -- Yezierska, 1904-1917 : Hattie Mayer, new woman -- Dewey, 1904-1917 : "His mind was eager, ardent for the fray" -- John Dewey in love -- Yezierska, 1917-1970 : hungry heart -- "Old men dreaming dreams."
Abstract:
This volume is a dual biography Poland-born, American novelist Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970) and American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey (1859-1952). It presents an account of the secret love affair between a young immigrant writer and a New England intellectual who fell deeply but briefly in love and who were both irrevocably changed by their short-lived merging of old and new world ways.
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