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The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative
Norman Podhoretz
ISBN: 9780743200516
Format: Book
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
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In this memoir, Norman Podhoretz charts the ups and downs of his lifelong love affair with his native land, and warns that to turn against America, from the Right no less than from the Left, is to fall into the rankest ingratitude. While telling the story of how he himself grew up to be a fervent patriot, one of this country's leading conservative thinkers urges his fellow conservatives to rediscover and reclaim their faith in America. Podhoretz takes us from his childhood as a working…
In this touching and delightful memoir, Norman Podhoretz charts the ups and downs of his lifelong love affair with his native land, and warns that to turn against America, from the Right no less than from the Left, is to fall into the rankest ingratitude. While telling the story of how he himself grew up to be a fervent patriot, one of this country's leading conservative thinkers urges his fellow conservatives to rediscover and reclaim their faith in America. A superb storyteller, Podhoretz takes us from his childhood as a working-class kid in Brooklyn during the Great Depression -- the son of Jewish immigrants singing Catholic hymns in a public school staffed by Irish spinsters and duking it out on the streets with his black and Italian classmates -- to his later education, his shifting political alliances, and his arrival at a happy personal and intellectual resolution. "My Love Affair with America" shows us a gentler and funnier Podhoretz than readers have seen before. At the same time, it presents a picture of someone eager to proclaim, against all comers, that America represents one of the high points in the history of human civilizations. In this powerful, elegantly written, and poignant cautionary tale, Podhoretz pleads with his fellow conservatives not to fall, as some have lately done, into their own special brand of anti-Americanism, as he reminds them of the disastrous consequences that followed the assault by the New Left against the United States in decades gone by. Warm in feeling and brilliantly perceptive, "My Love Affair with America" points the way back to a thoroughly unabashed love of country -- the kind of patriotism that has rarely been encounteredin recent years and that is as invigorating as it is inspiring.
| ISBN | 0743200519 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780743200516
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 417 | | Imprint | Simon & Schuster Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Book | | Height (mm) | 222 | | Publication date | 24 Jul 2000 | | Width (mm) | 147 | | Library of Congress | E169.12.P5 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 320.520973 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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Francis Fukuyama author of "The End of History and the Last Man" and "The Great Disruption"Norman Podhoretz's wonderful memoir traces both his development and that of his country, America, as they intertwine over three generations. In a surprising twist, he finds himself defending his country today from the Right rather than the Left, and by doing so helps us define a new meaning of patriotism.  Be the first to write a customer review
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