Love in the Promised Land: The Story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey

by Mary V. Dearborn

Book Overview

This book is an interpretation of the secret love affair between Anzia Yezierska, the young Jewish immigrant writer and America's patrician philosopher, John Dewey. The book draws on historical research, the writing of Yezierska and the 80 virtually unknown love poems which Dewey wrote about the affair. This story of Anna Yezierska would be of interest to students of cultural and women's studies courses.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029080908
• ISBN13: 9780029080900
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.