Making it
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Teachout, Terry, Writer of introduction
Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2017.
Status
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
305.52092 PODHO
1 available
305.52092 PODHO
1 available
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2017.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1967.
General Note
Includes index.
Description
Norman Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia University on a scholarship, and later received degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Cambridge University. Making It is his blistering account of fighting his way out of Brooklyn and into, then out of, the Ivory Tower, of his military service, and finally of his induction into the ranks of what he calls "the Family," the small group of left-wing and largely Jewish critics and writers whose opinions came to dominate and increasingly politicize the American literary scene in the fifties and sixties. It is a Balzacian story of raw talent and relentless and ruthless ambition. It is also a closely observed and in many ways still-pertinent analysis of the tense and more than a little duplicitous relationship that exists in America between intellect and imagination, money, social status, and power. The Family responded to the book with outrage, and Podhoretz soon turned no less angrily on them, becoming the fierce neoconservative he remains to this day. Fifty years after its first publication, this controversial and legendary book remains a riveting autobiography, a book that can be painfully revealing about the complex convictions and needs of a complicated man as well as a fascinating and essential document of mid-century American cultural life. -- from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Podhoretz, N., & Teachout, T. (2017). Making it . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Podhoretz, Norman and Terry, Teachout. 2017. Making It. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Podhoretz, Norman and Terry, Teachout. Making It New York Review Books, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Podhoretz, Norman,, and Terry Teachout. Making It New York Review Books, 2017.
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