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Norman Podhoretz

Autor/a de World War IV

24+ obres 916 Membres 8 Ressenyes 2 preferits

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Norman Podhoretz is editor at large for Commentary magazine.

Obres de Norman Podhoretz

World War IV (2007) 159 exemplars
Making It (1967) 116 exemplars
Why Are Jews Liberals? (1801) 77 exemplars
Why We Were in Vietnam (1982) 47 exemplars
Present Danger (1980) 23 exemplars
Bloody Crossroads (1989) 1 exemplars

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Booknotes: Stories from American History (2001) — Col·laborador — 456 exemplars
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 1: American Journalism 1941-1963 (2003) — Col·laborador — 235 exemplars
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
Granta 15: The Fall of Saigon (1985) — Col·laborador — 97 exemplars
7 Basic Steps to Successful Fasting & Prayer (10 Pack) (1995)algunes edicions86 exemplars
In Search of Anti-Semitism (1992) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions63 exemplars
Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (1988) — Col·laborador — 58 exemplars
The Jewish Writer (1998) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
On Contemporary Literature (1964) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions30 exemplars
The Partisan Review Anthology (1962) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions15 exemplars
The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (1995) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
The art of the essay (1958) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions9 exemplars
A Passion for Truth: The Selected Writings Of Eric Breindel (1999) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
The Young American Writers (1967) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions5 exemplars
Black, white, and gray; twenty-one points of view on the race question (1972) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions4 exemplars
Representative men : cult heroes of our time — Col·laborador, algunes edicions4 exemplars
The Scene Before You: A New Approach to American Culture — Col·laborador, algunes edicions3 exemplars
Recent American Fiction: Some Critical Views (1963) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions1 exemplars

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This book makes a valiant but not totally successful effort to explain why Jews "earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans." The attachment to Jewish causes is well-known and legendary. Jews are active in academia, government and entertainment, as well as the professions. While most support Israel, on other issues most are quite liberal, almost socialist. Mr. Podhoretz tries to explain this contradiction.

He takes us on a long and rather interesting trek through European and then American history. Mr. Podhoretz demonstrates how, until Roosevelt, the Democrats/liberals were almost always aligned with the Jews. The Jews made Roosevelt his hero, notwithstanding his treachery. Thereafter things get more complicated. The Jews continue, with the notable exception of Jimmy Carter's 1980 election, to vote Democratic with more than a 60% margin. The closest he comes to a convincing explanation (spoiler alert) is a one-paragraph reference to genetics that I find rather convincing.

His lengthier explanation is that liberalism and tikkun olam have beome like a Torah in and of itself; and unfalsifiable religion. To me that's a cop-out; it's saying "it is because it is." However, the book is interesting and well worth reading, as much for provoking disturbing thought than it is for answering the question "Why Are Jews Liberals?"
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JBGUSA | Jan 2, 2023 |
A Strong Argument that the Cold war was WW III and ended with USSR breakup and that we have entered into WW IV ever since Islamic Terrorism Started and Its fully engaged since 9-11
 
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DanJlaf | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | May 13, 2021 |
1737 Why We Were in Vietnam, by Norman Podhoretz (read 5 Aug 1982) Somewhat to my surprise I read this based on a recommendation by a conservative columnist. Podhoretz concludes we were in Vietnam for idealistic reasons, though it was imprudent to attempt what we did. I sturdily supported our Vietnam policy until 1968, when I became more dovish--but my heart was never really in my dovishness, though despising Nixon as I did I could be easy about opposing things he did. But this book is so rightist that it turned me off some, too. But the book is a good antidote to the liberal line on Vietnam.… (més)
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Schmerguls | Nov 2, 2008 |

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