Norman Podhoretz

Norman Podhoretz , born the January 16th 1930, is one of most known American intellectuals Néo-conservative S. Married to Midge Decter, he is the father of the leader-writer John Podhoretz.

Norman Podhoretz is especially known to have been, of 1960 to 1995, the Editor association of the very influential monthly magazine Commentary .

In 2004, it received the Presidential Medal off Freedom , the highest distinction which the American State can decree with a civilian.

Education

Norman Podhoretz was high in Brownsville, district poor of Brooklyn, in a family of left - his/her older sister was even committed in a socialist youth movement.

Norman Podhoretz received a license of the University of Columbia where he had studied with Lionel Trilling, as well as Jewish Theological Seminary . Then it received a license and a control of letters with mention of the University of Cambridge. In 1967, it was made known by a test entitled: “My Negro Problem - And Ours."

Career

From 1981 to 1987, Norman Podhoretz was to advise U.S. Information Agency .

From 1960 with its retirement in 1995, Norman Podhoretz was Editor association of the monthly magazine Commentary published by the American Jewish Committee .

De1995 at 2003 it was Senior Fellow Hudson Institute. He is also member of the Council one Foreign Relations and of the Support group of the Institut Turgot, and maintains the bonds with the Project for the New American Century .

Works of Norman Podhoretz

1964: Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After (tests on the American literature)
1967: Making It (autobiography) ISBN 0394434498
1979: Breaking Ranks: In Political Memoir
1980: The Present Danger: " C We Have the Will to Reverse the Decline off American Power? " ISBN 0671413953
1982: Why We Were in Vietnam ISBN 0671445782
1986: The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet (Tests on Camus, Kundera, Henry Adams, Kissinger, Soljénitsyne, Orwell et al. .) ISBN 0671618911
2000: Ex-Friends: Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman To net (Memories) ISBN 1893554171
2001: My Love Affair With America: The Cautionary Tale off has Cheerful Conservative (autobiography) ISBN 1893554414
2002: The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are (on Hebrew prophecy) ISBN 0743219279
2003: The Norman Podhoretz Reader: With Selection off His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s, texts gathered by Thomas L. Jeffers, with a foreword of the historian Paul Johnson ISBN 0743236610

External bonds

Norman Podhoretz, How to win World War IV, Commentary Magazine , February 2002.
Norman Podhoretz, World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win

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