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 Norman Podhoretz Information
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 Norman Podhoretz (b. January 16, 1930) A leftist commentator during the 1960s, he became associated with the neoconservative movement during the early 1970s. In 2007, his role as foreign policy advisor to Rudy Giuliani's Republican presidential campaign... 
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 Norman Podhoretz Quotes
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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult...
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 Policy Review Norman's conquest: a commentary on the Podhoretz legacy. (Norman Podhoretz)
09/22/1995: 3,697 words, approx. 12 pages Norman Podhoretz, editor in chief of 'Commentary' magazine 1960-1995, is the major force behind neoconservatism, the movement that shaped the debates over affirmative action and adversity culture, as well as Reagan's Cold War policies. Podhoretz values the culture and values of the common American.... summary from source:
Publishers Weekly Norman Podhoretz: Making Enemies.(Interview)
01/25/1999: 2,075 words, approx. 7 pages Schuessler is a Brooklyn-based freelancer. IN A CAREER spanning some 45 years, Norman Podhoretz has stood as an object lesson in how to make enemies and influence people. As the longtime editor of Commentary magazine and the author of such books as... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Stuck in Reverse, Godfather of the Neocons Gets Nowhere
9/18/2007: 549 words, approx. 2 pagesWORLD WAR IV: THE LONG STRUGGLE AGAINST ISLAMOFASCISMBy Norman Podhoretz Doubleday, 230 pages, $24.95 That Norman Podhoretz would open his new and deeply troubling World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism with a quaint Victorian salutation, “Dear Reader”—most famously used in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane... summary from source:
The New York Observer Commentary Rests
11/6/2007: 382 words, approx. 1 pages To the Editor: Contrary to The Observer’s report in “Some See Nepotism in Commentary’s New Editor Choice” [Oct. 29], the decision to name John Podhoretz as Commentary’s next editor was made by me and my fellow directors of Commentary Inc., not by the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Richard Poirier
8,306 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following review, Poirier asserts that, although Podhoretz's personal anecdotes are enjoyable and finely narrated, Ex-Friends: Falling out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer occasionally becomes side-tracked by tangents involving political diatribes and old grudges.
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Critical Review by Stephen J. Morris
4,923 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following review, Morris refutes Theodore Draper's scathing criticism of Why We Were in Vietnam—from the March 10, 1982, edition of New Republic—and presents a positive assessment of the work, comparing it to Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrieff's Many Reasons Why: The American Involvement in Vietnam and Denis Warner's Certain Victory: How Hanoi Won the War.
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Critical Review by Jim Sleeper
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In the following review, Sleeper recognizes that Podhoretz is attempting to illuminate a plan for America's ideological future in My Love Affair with America but argues that Podhoretz's message is overrun by his own small-mindedness and inflexibility.
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