Norman Podhoretz
Autor de World War IV
Sobre El Autor
Norman Podhoretz is editor at large for Commentary magazine.
Obras de Norman Podhoretz
Obras relacionadas
The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (1995) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Black, white, and gray; twenty-one points of view on the race question (1972) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 4 copias
The Scene Before You: A New Approach to American Culture — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 3 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1930-01-16
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- Columbia University (AB|1950)
Jewish Theological Seminary (BHL|Hebrew Literature|1950)
University of Cambridge (BA|1952)
University of Cambridge (MA|1957) - Ocupaciones
- U.S. Army
editor
essayist
literary critic - Relaciones
- Decter, Midge (wife)
Blum, Ruthie (daughter)
Podhoretz, John (son)
Trilling, Lionel (teacher) - Organizaciones
- U.S. Army
Commentary
Looking Glass Library
U.S. Information Agency
Hudson Institute - Premios y honores
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2004)
Guardian of Zion Award, Bar-Ilan University (2007)
Pulitzer Scholar, Columbia University
Fulbright Scholar
Kellett Fellow, Cambridge University
Fellow, Hudson Institute (mostrar todos 7)
Francis Boyer Award (2002)
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- 23
- También por
- 18
- Miembros
- 917
- Popularidad
- #27,979
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 40
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
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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?"… (más)