This is the first biography of the Jewish-American
intellectual Norman Podhoretz, longtime editor of the influential
magazine Commentary. As an editor and writer, he spearheaded the
countercultural revolution of the 1960s and - after he "broke
ranks" - the neoconservative response. Revealing the private as
well as the public man, Thomas L. Jeffers chronicles a heroically
coherent life.
關於作者:
Thomas L. Jeffers, a Yale Ph.D. 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.
目錄:
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
Notes
Bibliograpby
Index