Thomas L. Jeffers

Norman Podhoretz

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first biography of the Jewish-American intellectual Norman Podhoretz, long-time editor of the influential magazine Commentary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9781107617872
• ISBN-10: 1107617871
• Artikelnr.: 40189482

Autorenporträt

Thomas L. Jeffers, a Yale PhD and a Professor of Literature at Marquette University, earlier taught at Cornell and Harvard, where he was a Mellon Fellow. Author of Samuel Butler Revalued (1981) and Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana (2005), he has also published pieces in numerous journals, including the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, Raritan, and Commentary. In 2004 he edited The Norman Podhoretz Reader, which provided the inspiration for this book.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. Brownsville
2. Columbia
3. Cambridge
4. The family and the army
5. The practicing critic
6. Boss
7. 'This was bigger than both of us'
8. One shoe drops
9. Dropping the other shoe
10. Liberalism lost
11. George Lichtheim, Pat Moynihan, and a lecture tour
12. Domesticities, Lillian Hellman, and the question of America's nerve
13. Moynihan, Podhoretz, and 'the party of liberty'
14. Breaking and closing ranks
15. Present dangers
16. 'The great satan of the American romantic left'
17. Regulated hatreds
18. Culture wars
19. A literary Indian summer
20. Verdicts
21. New wars for a new century
Epilogue.