{"product_id":"the-norman-podhoretz-reader-a-selection-of-his-writings-from-the-1950s-through-the-1990s-9781416568308","title":"The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s Through the 1990s","description":"Norman Podhoretz \"is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to the news as it pours from the press and the airwaves, who thinks deeply, angrily, and sincerely about it, and commits his thoughts into vivid and penetrative argument.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo writes the eminent British historian Paul Johnson in his introduction to this indispensable collection of Norman Podhoretz's essays of the past fifty years. Organized by decade, these essays, fascinating in themselves, also add up to a running history of American literature and intellectual life in the second half of the twentieth century. From Vladimir Nabokov to Saul Bellow, from Ralph Ellison to Norman Mailer, from Hannah Arendt to Henry Kissinger, Podhoretz has dealt with the most important novelists and thinkers of the period. He has also turned his attention to such major European figures as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell, and Isaiah Berlin, and his trenchant appraisals of both Americans and Europeans are as fresh and lively today as when they first appeared. Many of them have been unavailable for years, and will prove revelatory for first-time readers and longtime admirers alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe New York intellectuals, of whom Podhoretz is the archetype, loved to read and discuss literature, but they never stopped arguing about politics. Intertwined with the literary essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Norman Podhoretz Reader\u003c\/i\u003e offers some of the best and most influential political essays written by anyone in our time. Through such classics as \"\u003ci\u003eMy\u003c\/i\u003e Negro Problem -- and Ours,\" his famous reassessments in \u003ci\u003eWhy We Were in Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e, and his retrospective look at neoconservatism (of which he was one of the founding fathers), Podhoretz has led and changed opinion throughout his career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to all this, \u003ci\u003eThe Norman Podhoretz Reader\u003c\/i\u003e includes self-contained excerpts from the books \u003ci\u003eMaking It, Breaking Ranks\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEx-Friends\u003c\/i\u003e that demonstrate why Johnson calls Podhoretz \"an auto- biographer of genius.\" Taken together, these readings provide a rich sample of the work of one of America's great contemporary men of letters -- an extraordinary writer who is equally comfortable discussing the Marquis de Sade and the Middle East, American foreign policy and theological disputes, and who brings the same vigor, intelligence, and literary grace to this amazingly broad range of subjects and issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman Podhoretz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416568308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevised Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45089857634441,"sku":"9781416568308","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5c9814e9-5875-48c7-8c3d-6901b56c5a67.jpg?v=1766477299","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-norman-podhoretz-reader-a-selection-of-his-writings-from-the-1950s-through-the-1990s-9781416568308","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}