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Norman Podhoretz
ISBN: 9780684855943
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Edition: illustrated edition
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Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer - all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group of New York intellectuals who came to be known as "the Family…
Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer - all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group of New York intellectuals who came to be known as "the Family." As only a family member could, Podhoretz tells the story of these friendships, once central to his life, and shows how the political and cultural struggles of the past fifty years made them impossible to sustain. With wit, piercing insight, and startling honesty, we are introduced as never before to a type of person for whom ideas were often matters of life and death, and whose passing from the scene has left so large a gap in American culture.
| ISBN | 0684855941 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780684855943
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Simon & Schuster | | Weight (grammes) | 501 | | Imprint | Pocket Books | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 244 | | Publication date | 01 Feb 1999 | | Width (mm) | 165 | | Library of Congress | PS29.P63 A | | Spine width (mm) | 24 | | DEWEY | 818.543 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Introduction: How Our "Family" Broke Up | | 1 | | 1 | | At War with Allen Ginsberg | | 22 | | 2 | | Going Too far for the Trillings | | 57 | | 3 | | Another Part of the Forest: Lillian Hellman | | 103 | | 4 | | Hannah Arendt's Jewish Problem - and Mine | | 139 | | 5 | | A Foul-Weather Friend to Norman Mailer | | 178 | | | | Afterword : Requiem for a Lost World | | 221 | | | | Acknowledgments | | 235 | | | | Index | | 237 |
William J. Bennett author of "The Book of Virtues" and "The Death of Outrage" Norman Podhoretz is one of this country's most consequential intellectuals. He is also one of its most enigmatic. For what to admire most in Podhoretz? His love for ideas? His rigorous intelligence? His political courage? His sparkling, combative pen? This splendid book renders the question even more puzzling. "Ex-Friends" is a compelling personal memoir and a fascinating political and social history.  Be the first to write a customer review
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