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Podhoretz, Norman
Podhoretz, Norman (1930–), Brooklyn‐born literary critic, as a student at Columbia was influenced by Lionel Trilling, at Clare College, Cambridge, by Leavis. His sociocultural essays are collected in Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing (1964). Making It (1967) is a witty, self‐deprecatory revelation of the writer's successful efforts to succeed in New York intellectual society. Breaking Ranks (1979) is an equally candid memoir of recent political issues and his turn toward the right. Why We Were in Vietnam (1982) supports the purposes of the U.S. intervention and attacks the New Left's views. He became editor of Commentary in 1960 and moved it to his neoconservative views. His literary views stand out in the essays of The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet (1986). Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer (1999) is a personal memoir, as is My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative (2000). Podhoretz received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush in 2004.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Podhoretz, Norman." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Podhoretz, Norman." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-PodhoretzNorman.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Podhoretz, Norman." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-PodhoretzNorman.html |
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Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz , 1930–, American editor and essayist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. As editor in chief (1960–95) of Commentary, he turned the Jewish monthly into an influential forum for social criticism and American neoconservatism. He subsequently became a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a think tank. He has written several memoirs, including Making It (1967), which traces his rise to power among New York intellectuals, and Breaking Ranks (1979), which explains his switch from liberalism to neoconservatism. The Norman Podhoretz Reader (2004, ed. by T. L. Jeffers) compiles selections from his writings. His World War IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofascism (2007) outlines Podhoretz's approach to American policy in the Middle East and his support of President George W. Bush .
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"Norman Podhoretz." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Norman Podhoretz." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Podhoretz.html "Norman Podhoretz." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Podhoretz.html |
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