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Norman Podhoretz




Norman Podhoretz (born January 16 , 1930 ) is an American intellectual considered to be a prominent Neo-conservative thinker and writer. From 1981-87, Podhoretz served with the U.S. Information Agency. He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute . He is a member of the Council On Foreign Relations and is connected with the Project For The New American Century . He served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Jewish Committee 's monthly magazine '' Commentary '' from 1960 until his retirement in 1995 .

He is the father of the columnist, John Podhoretz .


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  • 1963: ''Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After'' (essays on American writers)

  • 1967: ''Making It'' (autobiography) ISBN 0394434498

  • 1979: ''Breaking Ranks: A Political Memoir''

  • 1980: ''The Present Danger: "Do We Have the Will to Reverse the Decline of American Power?"'' ISBN 0671413953

  • 1982: ''Why We Were in Vietnam'' (history and argument) ISBN 0671445782

  • 1986: ''The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet'' (essays on Camus, Kundera, Henry Adams, Kissinger, Solzhenitsyn, Orwell et al.) ISBN 0671618911

  • 2000: ''Ex-Friends: Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer'' (memoir) ISBN 1893554171

  • 2001: ''My Love Affair With America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative'' (autobiography) ISBN 1893554414

  • 2002: ''The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are'' (about the classical Hebrew prophets) ISBN 0743219279

  • 2003: ''The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s,'' edited by Thomas L. Jeffers; foreword by Paul Johnson ISBN 0743236610



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