Norman Podhoretz

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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.

Books

  • 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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