Norman Podhoretz (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521198141)

This is the first biography of the Jewish-American intellectual Norman Podhoretz, longtime editor of the influential magazine Commentary. As both an editor and a writer, he spearheaded the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and - after he "broke ranks" - the neoconservative response. For years he defined what was at stake in the struggle against communism; recently he has nerved America for a new struggle against jihadist Islam; always he has given substance to debates over the function of religion, ethics, and the arts in our society. The turning point of his life occurred, at the age of forty near a farmhouse in upstate New York, in a mystic clarification. It compelled him to "unlearn" much that he had earlier been taught to value, and it also made him enemies. Revealing the private as well as the public man, Thomas L. Jeffers chronicles a heroically coherent life.

Author: Thomas L. Jeffers
ISBN-10: 0521198143
ISBN-13: 9780521198141
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2010
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.40w x 1.24d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 03/26/2010 pg. 18
New York Times Book Review 08/01/2010 pg. 20
Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 83
Booklist 09/01/2010 pg. 20
Choice 02/01/2011