Oral history interview with Norman Podhoretz, 1994

Biographical Note

Editor

Scope and Contents

Columbia University 1946-1950; New York intellectuals, style of, members of, definition of, and New Critics, personal relations among, competitiveness of, rivalries, relationships to universities, politics of, Jewish roots of; United States Army, service in Germany; climate of 1950s; increasing radicalism, The New Left, early support of, discomfort with, break with; anti-war movement; 1969 New York teachers strike, affirmative action; relations of intellectuals and centers of power; identity as neoconservative

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Podhoretz, Norman--Interviews.

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Copyright by Joseph Dorman