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Note: The abbreviation “NP” stands for Norman Podhoretz.

Abel, Sherry, 49, 53, 64, 75, 332 Albright, Madeline, Wilsonian style of, 291 character of, 50 Allen, Richard V., 212 abortion, 9 America Catholic intellectuals and, 292–293 bicentennial marks remoralization of, 186 Abraham, binding of Isaac and, 301 blessings of, 298 Abrams, Elliott, 235 Britain’s imperial successor, 115 character of, 263 civilization of, 15 early political experience of, 190 Cohen’s view of, 65 liberation theology and, 230 cultural mosaic more than melting pot, 138 marriage to Rachel Decter, 190 exceptionalism of, 209–210 meeting with Carter and Mondale, 203 Family’s identification with, 37–38 pardon of, 265 NP’s identification with, 27, 29, 34–35 Walsh’s prosecution of, 264–267 social classes in, 76 Abrams, Rachel Decter, 45, 52, 71, 96, 114, value of success in, 107 127, 161, 205 See also race relations birth of, 20 American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Francis marriage to Elliott Abrams, 207 Boyer Award 318 marriage to Moshe Mark, 170 American Jewish Committee (AJC), 52, 62, suffering during Elliott’s legal ordeal, 265 63, 64, 88, 272, 317 Abzug, Bella, 190 Amin, Idi, attack on Israel at U.N., 182–183 Adams, Brooks, anti-Semitism of, 255 Annan, Noel Adams, John, different generations’ different Breaking Ranks and, 201 tasks and, 299 King’s College and, 34 Adler, Renata, 340 NP reviews Our Age, 269 affirmative action anti-Americanism arguments for and against, 133 in Europe, 27 “benign quotas” and, 136–137, 152 native variety, 202 illiberalism of, 153 at U.N., 177–178 Afghanistan, 290, 308, 311 war in Iraq and, 312 Soviet invasion of, 203, 210, 215 anti-communism, 174, 230, 270 AFL-CIO democratic socialists and, 200 Kirkpatrick as Democratic ally of, 212 “hard” vs. “soft,” 65 support for war in Vietnam, 151 left and right positions toward, 149–150 al Qaeda, 279, 308, 310, 311 liberalism and, 38 377

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anti-communism (cont.) Bach, Johann Sebastian, 247 Moynihan and, 191 “Jewishness” of, 296–297 postliberalism and, 148 Baker, James antinomianism “Fuck the Jews,” 291 Beats and, 55 placating Arabs during Desert Storm, 287 Beethoven and, 296 Baldwin, James, 86, 87 Ginsberg and, 250 “All whitey ever gave us was basketballs,” Marat/Sade and, 143 139 New Left and, 113 “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re anti-Semitism (general), 272 Anti-White,” 117 Columbia and, 15, 18 Nobody Knows My Name, 84 defined, 226 Notes of a Native Son, 83 DeMott and, 101 NP’s “open letter” to, 117 Nazi SS and, 91 The Fire Next Time and NP, 84–86 recent source of, 226–227 Bar-Illan, David, 273 anti-Semitism (on the Left), See black Barrett, William, 177 anti-Semitism; Capote, Truman; Vidal, indivisibility of economic and political Gore; “Zionism-as-racism” freedom and, 271 anti-Semitism (on the Right), See Adams, Bartley, Robert L., 147 Brooks; Buckley, William F.; Buchanan, Bartov, Hanoch, 338 Patrick; Chronicles of Culture; Eliot, Beats, the, 54, 55, 56, 83. See also Ginsberg, T. S.; Robertson, Pat; Sobran, Joseph; Allen; Podhoretz, Norman (essays and Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr lectures of) “The Know-Nothing appeasement, 177 Bohemians” Bundy, Kennan, et al. and, 232 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 296, 297 in thirties England and seventies America, Beichman, Arnold, 113, 198, 229, 258 202 Cohen’s suicide and, 334 liberal churches and, 286 “lions” assembled for NP’s retirement Arabs banquet and, 274 blacks’ identification with, 140 summary of reviews of Why We Were in racism of, 184 Vietnam, 224 rejection of Israel’s right to exist, 196 Beinart, Peter, reviews World War IV, 361 slave trade and, 121, 185 Bell, Daniel, 15 Arafat, Yasser, 198 Bell, Pearl, 154 rejection of Clinton’s Camp David offer, Bellow, Saul, 42, 144, 331 299 NP on Ravelstein, 278 Arendt, Hannah, 75, 160 unhappy with NP’s review of Augie March, Eichmann in Jerusalem, 89–90 40–41 NP and, 91–92 Bentley, Beverly, 97 army Berman, Paul, 256 NP lecturing troops in, 46 Berns, Walter, 168 NP’s desire to be drafted into, 36 Bernstein, Leonard and Felicia, 131 NP’s service in Germany and, 45–46 Berryman, John, 17, 42, 332 NP’s training in, 42–44 Bert, Erik, 211 Arnold, Matthew, 15, 18, 19 Besançon, Alain, 236 Aron, Raymond, 229 Bickel, Alexander M., 139 Ataturk,¨ Kemal, 308 Bildungsroman, Making It as type of, 106 Atlas, James, New York Intellectuals and, bin Laden, Osama, 307, 308 242 black anti-Semitism audiophilia, 169 UFT strike and, 132–133 authoritarian dictatorship See also Baldwin, James; Black Panthers; less hopeless than totalitarian variety, 188. Cleaver, Eldridge; Howe, Irving See also Kirkpatrick, Jeane black family life, Moynihan and NP on, (“Dictatorships and Double Standards”) 137

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Black Panthers See also Annan, Noel; Clare College; Leavis, Milstein on, 139 F. R.; Northam, John “radical chic” and, 132 Camp Ramah (Wisconsin), 23 Black Power, 130, 136 Campbell, Lady Jeanne, 97 Blake, William, 54, 80, 251, 303, 304 capitalism Bloom, Allan ancestral enemy of the Left, 270 Bellow’s Ravelstein and, 278 intellectual foundations of, 181 impact of Closing of the American Mind, liberation theology’s errors about, 268–269 230 Blum, Nadav, 206, 287 Moynihan on, 178 Blumenthal, Sidney New Deal and, 137 reviews Bloody Crossroads, 243 NP’s three cheers for, 272 The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, system essential to defeat of communism, 340 260 Boss, the (Clement and Martin Greenberg), 51 Capote, Truman, 98, 253 NP’s battle with, 52–53 Carmichael, Stokely, 88, 338 Boys High, 10, 11, 328 Carter, Jimmy Breslin, Jimmy, 339 appeasement and, 202 “jackal-bins,” 100 Camp David Accords and, 198 Brogan, Denis W., 67 foreign policy doctrine of, 210 Brown, Norman O., 63, 66, 97, 335 Jackson Democrats meet with, 203 Brownmiller, Susan, 280 Jackson Democrats rapidly disillusioned by, Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 198 197 Buber, Martin, 99 Kirkpatrick on, 213 Buchanan, Patrick Castro, Fidel anti-Semitism of, 267, 285 Mailer on, 200 runs against incumbent Bush, 290 New Left enamored with, 76–77 Buckley, William F., Jr., 256, 272 celebrity-mongering, 109 anti-Semitism and, 267 NP’s desire to overcome, 166 oil and Israel and, 285 Cerf, Bennett, 107 Sobran and, 238 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 184 support for Buchanan for president, 290 Chambers, Whittaker, 38 Bundy, McGeorge, 98, 232, 276 Cherokees, S.A.C., 10 Burke, Edmund, NP’s Cambridge essay on, Chiappe, Andrew, 15, 16, 17, 21 24 chosen people Burke, Kenneth, 124 liberal discomfort with designation, Burroughs, William, 251 302 Buruma, Ian, 361 Murray and Twain on, 303 reviews World War IV, 327 witness to Law, 146, 296 Bush, George H. W., 265, 285, 287, 290 Chronicles of Culture. See Fleming, Thomas Bush, George W., 291, 308, 309 anti-Semitism in, 256 Left accuses of “lying,” 310 Church, Frank, 191 NP defends against Left, 312 Churchill, Winston, 193 NP defends Doctrine of, 311–312 Clare College, 17, 23 Business Week, reviews The Present Danger, Clark, Bill, 21 211 Clark, Kenneth, Supreme Court testimony of, Butler, Nicholas Murray, 18 136 Cleaver, Eldridge, 118 Cambridge University Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 291, 309, King’s College, 34 311 NP as “gentleman” at, 23 Clinton, William Jefferson (“Bill”) Ph.D. program at, 34 failure at Camp David, 299 training compared to Columbia’s, 24 NP on, 291 tripos at, 24, 30 Sexgate and, 284

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Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM) Steel on, 211 end of, 153 See also Cold War; Podhoretz, Norman formation of, 150–151 (essays and lectures of), “Making the manifesto of, 152–153 World Safe for Communism”; Soviet Cockburn, Alexander, defamation of NP, 228 Union; totalitarianism Cohen, Elliot, 332 Congress for Cultural Freedom, 116, comparison of Commentary with Partisan 214 Review, 38 Connolly, Cyril, 349 illness of, 53 Contras, 230, 231 NP’s ﬁrst meeting with, 32 counterculture pro-Americanism of, 38, 65 “kid”-worship and, 144 suicide of, 62, 334 drugs and, 99 Trilling’s recommendation of NP to, 30 essence of opposition to, 294 Cold War, 46, 115, 116, 209, 232, 260 See also Ginsberg, Allen; Goodman, Paul; Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin and, 65 Mailer, Norman; New Left Lynd on origins of, 71 Crews, Frederick, Trilling’s “teacher’s World War III, 307 illusion” and, 154 Columbia University curriculum and faculty of, 15–16 Daiches, David, 340 homosexuals at, 21 Dalton School jealousy and envy at, 21–22 liberal laxities of, 158, 205 NP’s achievements at, 16–18 tuition at, 106 NP’s poetic ambitions at, 16 Dawidowicz, Lucy, NP’s eulogy for, 262 NP’s reputation at, 21 Dearborn, Mary V., 112 Pulitzer Scholarship to, 11 Decter, Midge tensions between WASP and Jew at, 18–20 “The Boys on the Beach,” 248–249 Commentary chance meeting with NP in Vermont, 45 compared to Menorah Journal and children’s classics and, 62 Contemporary Jewish Record, 37 Committee for a Free World and, 214 early reporting on Vietnam, 222 disenchantment with New Left, 99 early staff of, 32 divorce from Moshe Decter, 48 fees paid by, 51 Family’s Freudianism and, 319 NP as Cohen’s successor at, 63–64 female sexuality and, 96 promotion of counter-countercultural ﬁrst acquaintance with NP, 20 revolution starting in early seventies, 129 her young children and, 71 promotion of counterculture in early sixties, Jacqueline Kennedy and, 95 65–66 Japanese culture and, 168 renown of, xi “literary season” and, 58 Commentary Fund, 272 Mailer’s character-creating and, 337 Committee for a Free World (CFW) Mailer’s stabbing his wife and, 82 conference at Plaza Hotel, 216 marriage and gender roles and, 207–208 formation of, 214 marriage to Moshe Decter, 20 Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), 214 marriage to NP, 52 formation of, 202 “My Negro Problem” and, 86 communism, 215 NP’s and her shared Jewishness, 320 “absolutely evil,” 260 NP’s starting Making It and, 106 containment of, 209 partnership with NP, 320 Gulag Archipelago’s exposure of, 233 Podhoretz and Wheldon domestic scenes, Heilbroner and, 114 95–96 Hellman and, 174 religion’s minimal role in her family’s life, “missing term” in foreign policy debate, 208 211 secretary at Commentary, 48 Rebecca West on thirties appeal of, 202 Sobran and, 237–238

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subject of feminism, 96–97 NP’s remembrance and explanation of, youth of, 20 124–127 Decter, Moshe, 20, 48, 205, 350 Epstein, Jason, 53, 276 democratic socialism, 149 The Great Conspiracy Trial, 139 Goodheart and, 149 Looking Glass Library and, 61–62 Howe and, 149, 271 Making It and, 108 Lichtheim and, 159 New Left and, 79, 115–116 Stone and, 141 New York Review and, 78 DeMott, Benjamin, reviews Doings and “Newport Reading Club” and, 70 Undoings, 100–101 “radical chic” and, 131 Desert Storm, NP defends, 285–286 UFT strike and, 132 detente,´ 177 Epstein, Joseph, 204, 254 Carter and, 203 Breaking Ranks and, 200–201 Kissinger and, 187 “envy and Schadenfreude” that greeted Moynihan and, 192 Making It and, 109 NP’s critique of, 210 “Homo/Hetero” and, 253 Reagan and, 215 “The New Conservatism, Intellectuals in Dickens, Charles, Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, Retreat,” 149 283 NP’s “style” and, 321 dispensationalists (Christian), supersessionists “radical chic” and, 132 and, 358 ethnics, afﬁrmative action and, 138 Disraeli, Benjamin Leavis’s rejection of NP’s essay on, 34–35 Family (of New York Intellectuals) NP’s essay on political novels of, 33–34 alienation and, 37 Donadio, Candida, 107 anti-communism of, 64 Draper, Theodore Beichman on, 113 black nationalism and, 119 Bellow’s Augie and, 40 “preemptive strike” on Why We Were in DeMott on, 101 Vietnam, 223–224 drink and, 72 Dreiser, Theodore, 276 generational differences within, 67 drinking heyday and scattering of, 293–294 Morris and, 103 Kempton’s coinage of, 26 Newton’s alcoholism, 165 Mudrick on, 100 NP’s habit, 72 NP and Decter’s relations with, 58 response to failure of Making It and, 114 NP’s acceptance by, 41 Drumont, Edouard, 184 Plimpton versus, 105 Du Bois, W. E. B., 269 style of, 39 Dworkin, Andrea, 280 Warshow’s death and, 50 See also Mailer, Norman (“Up the Family Economist,onCommentary,xi Tree”) Eliot, T. S., 20, 60, 122, 145 fascism anti-Semitism and, 145 alliance between very rich and Ellison, Ralph lumpenproletariat and, 119 Howe and, 88 See also Islamofascism; totalitarianism NP on career of, 279–280 Faulkner, William, 60, 103, 280 reaction to “My Negro Problem,” 87 Feiffer, Jules, cartoon of NP and, 239 tensions between blacks and Jews and, 118 feminism, sexual revolution and, Ellmann, Richard, 91 280–281 Empson, William, 228 Ferris, Paul, biography of Huw Wheldon epiphany, of spring 1970, 89 and, 261–262 “Judaism was true,” 125 Fiedler, Leslie lessons of, 142 Commentary editorship and, 63 NP to Jacqueline Wheldon on, 128 counterculture and, 143–144

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Fitzgerald,F.Scott Castro and, 77 Crack-up and, 110 communism and, 187 drink and, 72 Harvard admissions and, 134 Fleming, Thomas, NP on “The Real American Hellman’s Scoundrel Time and, 174 Dilemma,” 256 Making It and, 108 Flynt, Larry neoconservatism and, 147, 149 pornography and, 282 “The New Left and Its Limits,” 78 See also Podhoretz, Norman (essays and Gold, Herbert, 55 lectures of), “Lolita, My Mother-in-Law, Goodheart, Eugene, “The Deradicalized the Marquis de Sade, and Larry Flynt” Intellectuals,” 149 Fonda, Jane, 175 Goodman, Paul, 293 Ford Foundation, 119, 132, 276 Bloom and, 268 Forman, Milos, The People vs. Larry Flynt, critics’ reactions to, 67–68 282 Growing Up Absurd and, 65–67 Freud, Sigmund (Freudianism), 96, 261, 270, NP’s “My Negro Problem” and, 87 319 Goodwin, Richard, 92, 95 Friedenberg, Edgar Z., Making It and, 109 RFK and, 116 Fromm, Erich, Jewish martyrdom and, 120 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich, Fukuyama, Francis, 260 neoconservative reactions to, 257–258 Fulbright Fellowship, 17, 31 Graves, Robert, Making It and, 113 Green, Gerald, right-wing anti-Semitism and, Galbraith, John Kenneth, 63 267 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, Greenberg, Clement (“Clem”), 32, 37, 41, Autobiography, 163 42 Gardiner, Muriel, Hellman’s “Julia” and, 174 Cohen’s death and, 62 Garment, Leonard, 194 on NP’s editorial skills, 334 career of, 180 Greenberg, Martin (“Marty”), 53, 63, 64 characterization of Moynihan and, 160 Greenﬁeld, Meg, 232 NP and Moynihan’s teamwork and, 180 Gross, John, 232, 274 NP’s regret and, 325 American-British cultural differences and, “Zionism-as-racism” and, 182 323 Gass, Oscar, 68, 114 “automatic hatred” of NP in America and, Gelman, David, 121 324 Gingrich, Newt, 291 Bloody Crossroads and, 243 Ginsberg, Allen 16, 244 JFK’s death and, 92 homosexuality and, 54, 251–252 Lichtheim’s funeral and, 160 hostile encounter with NP at Mailer’s, 80 NP’s “Mickey Rooney style” and, xiii Mailer and, 55 Grossman, Edward, 175 NP and, 249–252 NP as “sacred personage” in life of, 250 Hadas, Moses, 9, 16 NP as Trillingesque “conscience” for, 251 Haft, Harriet Cashmore (“Mrs. K.”), 11, NP’s “Know-Nothing Bohemians” and, 12 53–54 acculturation of NP and, 9–10 NP’s meeting with Kerouac and, 54–55 NP at Boys High and, 8–9 pedophilia and, 252 Halkin, Hillel, 197 psychiatric disorder and, 251 Hammett, Dashiell, 173, 174 “When the Mode of the Music Changes,” Hannah, Norman B., 220 249 Hansberry, Lorraine, 88 See also Podhoretz, Norman (essays and Hardwick, Elizabeth, 78 lectures of) “The Know-Nothing Hart, Jeffrey, 254 Bohemians” Hartford, Huntington, 75 Giuliani, Rudy, NP as adviser to, 313 Harvard University, afﬁrmative action and, Glazer, Nathan (“Nat”), 32, 118 133–135

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Hasidism Vidal and, 253 Heschel and, 14–15 homosexuality, 255 Mailer and, 99 appeasement and, 202 Hassan, Ihab, 340 eighties discussions of, 247–248 Havel, Vaclav,´ 250 See also Cambridge University; Columbia Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter and University; Decter, Midge (“The Boys on Roth, 277 the Beach”); Epstein, Joseph Hayden, Tom (“Homo/Hetero”); Ginsberg, Allen; authoritarianism and, 77 Podhoretz, Norman (“How the “The Port Huron Statement” and, 76–77 Gay-Rights Movement Won”) Heilbroner, Robert, 114 Hook, Sidney, 156, 177, 216, 318, 324 Heilbrunn, Jacob, 340, 360 deterrence theory and, 72 Heller, Joseph Horner, Charles, 220 Catch-22, 278–279 Howard, Michael, 352 Good as Gold, 200 Howe, Irving, 218, 270, 336 Hellman, Lillian 55, 131 “Black Boys and Native Sons,” 88 falsehoods of, 175 “black fascism” and, 118 friendliness to NP and, 173–174 Trilling and, 44 “Jewish anti-Semitism” and, 174 Hughes, H. Stuart NP and, 172–175 deterrence theory and, 71–72 Scoundrel Time and, 174 New Left and, 77 Stalinism of, 172–173 Humphrey, Hubert, 153 See also Gardiner, Muriel Hussein, Saddam, 215, 285, 286, 287, 288, Hemingway, Ernest 290, 291 drink and, 72 weapons of mass destruction and, Ellison and, 280 309–311 fascism and, 352 Hammett and, 173 immortality, Judaism and, 128 Hertog, Roger, NP’s savings and, 317 Intifada I, 257 Hertzberg, Hendrik, 310 Intifada II, child sacriﬁce and, 300 Herzog, Chaim, Moynihan at U.N. and, Iran, 176, 290 185 fall of Shah of, 210 Heschel, Abraham Joshua, Hasidism and, Hezbollah and, 225 14–15 Iraq war with, 309 Hezbollah, “Party of God” as, 225 nuclear threat of, 313–314 Himmelfarb, Dan, 344 See also Podhoretz, Norman (essays and neoconservatism’s roots and, 150 lectures of), “The Case for Bombing Himmelfarb, Milton, 148 Iran” Hitchens, Christopher, 218 Iran-Contra scandal, 264 Hitler, Adolf, 3, 79, 91, 120, 121, 140, 141, Abrams and, 264 143, 173, 193, 210, 219, 224, 225, 235, Islam 303, 311, 313, 314, 352 American academics and, 308 Hoffman,JudgeJulius,139 Ataturk¨ and, 308 Hoffman, Stanley, 177 Disraeli and, 33 Hollander, John, 16 martyrdom and, 300 Commentary’s “hard hat” turn and, “submission” and, 307 131 Islamofascism Ginsberg and, 54 casualties and, 312 Trilling and, 18 Giuliani and, 313 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 113 long-term struggle against, 314 Holocaust, 117, 140, 195 support for, 311 Arab denial of, 195 World War IV and, 307, 310 Dawidowicz and, 262 See also al Qaeda; jihad

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isolationism, 115, 147 Jong, Erica, 283 Americans’ tendency to, 219 Joyce, James, 74, 180 Democrats and, 187 Judaism Desert Storm and, 286 Bach and, 297 paleoconservatism and, 150 Disraeli and, 33 reaction to Vietnam and, 221, 222 essence of, 302 Israel Jerusalem and, 302–303 Abzug and Moynihan on, 189 NP’s “style” and, 321 analogy with Czechoslovakia in 1938 and, NP’s loyalty to, 320–321 196 Ozick and, 146 deterrent force of, 215 particularity of, 303 normal country?, 235 Reform and Reconstructionist branches of, NP’s ﬁrst visit to, 29 303 Palestinians and, 358 Trilling and, 156 “peace process” and, 287–289 See also chosen people; epiphany, spring of 1970;Jews Jackson, Henry (“Scoop”), 153, 190, 192 just war theory Jacksonites and Carter, 202, 203 Weigel and, 286 Jacksonites and Kennedy, 153 World War IV and, 312–313 Jacksonites and Moynihan, 191, 192, 193, 194 Kahn, Herman, On Thermonuclear War, Jacksonites and Soviet Union, 197 71–72 Jacobson, Dan, 108, 144, 171, Karaite, 126 330 Kass, Leon, NP’s intensity and, 322–323 Baldwin and, 84 Kazan, Elia, 174 NP on Leavis and, 227 Kazin, Alfred NP’s drinking and, 114 CFW and, 216–217 The Story of the Stories, 302 NP on, 352 James, Clive, 145 “Our forests?” 37 James, William, 234 Kellett Fellowship, 16, 17 Jeffers, Thomas L, Kemble, Penn, 153 “The Hebrew Prophets, Then and Now,” Kempton, Beverly, 121 360 Kempton, Murray, 26, 130, 333 “Norman Podhoretz’s Discourses on Kennan, George F. America,” 327 Persian Gulf and, 211 The Norman Podhoretz Reader, 331 Truman Doctrine and, 209 “What They Talked About When They See also appeasement Talked About Literature,” 334 Kennedy, Jacqueline (“Jackie”) Jeremiah, 23, 288, 329 Mailer and, 112 Jesus Christ, 126, 296, 297 NP and, 92–94 Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), 5, 13 Kennedy, John F. (JFK), 33, 80 types of students at, 328 assassination of, 92 Jews Jacksonite Democrats and, 153 East-European culture of, 165 Mailer on, 77 false friends on the Left and, 305–306 Kennedy, Robert (“Bobby,” RFK), 93 identiﬁcation with modern liberalism, presidential candidacy of, 116 306–307 Keppel, Frederick P., 19 See also Marx, Karl Kermode, Frank, 340 jihad, 257, 307 Kernan, Alvin, 154 Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ) Kerouac, Jack, 54, 251, 322 Gulf of Tonkin and, 69 NP’s meeting with, 54–55 Podhoretzes’ meeting with, 94–95 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 84, 136 Six-Day War and, 119 Kirkpatrick, Evron Maurice, 212, 351 Johnson, Paul, 269, 323 Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 215, 237 Johnson, Samuel, 122, 232, 298 CDM and, 150

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“Dictatorships and Double Standards,” Laski, Harold, 28 212–214, 230 Latin America left-wing hatred and, 269–270 totalitarian threats in, 229–231 Reagan and, 203, 212 See also Abrams, Elliott; authoritarian Kissinger, Henry dictatorship; Contras detente´ and, 210 Lawrence, D. H., 24, 31, 45, 54, 76 Finlandized Europe and, 187 Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 73 “idea” man not “word” man, 352 Studies in Classic American Literature, 83 Israel and, 183, 195, 220 Leavis, F. R., 330, 331 Moynihan and, 180, 186 NP a devotee of, 26–27 Nixon administration policies and, 220 Leavis, Queenie, 26 NP’s reply to tribute of, 241 Lebanon, Israel’s incursion into, 225–226 NP’s review of memoirs of, 218–219 Lehman, David, 106 Ozick on, 244 Lehman, Ernest, 114 The Present Danger on, 211 Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 223 tribute to NP’s career, 239–240 Lenin, Vladimir, 167, 258, 260 Wilsonian idealism and, 178 Jews and, 306 See also detente´ Leonard, John, Ex-Friends and, 295 Klein, Marcus, NP’s memoirs and, 295 Levin, Harry, 17 Klug, Aaron, 119, 330 Lewis, Anthony, 226, 323 Klug, Liebe, 129 Lewis, Bernard, 182 Kopkind, Andrew, 121, 130 Lewis, Flora, appeasement and, 233 Kozodoy, Neal, 169, 191, 212, 318 liberal democracy background of, 129 counterculture’s loss of faith in, 211 editorship of Commentary and, 272 defense of Jews and, 133 Magid and, 262 exportation to Middle East and, 308, retirement and, 315 314 tribute to NP and, 273–274 Israel and, 200, 255 Kramer, Hilton, 227, 239, 242 Judaism and, 304 middle-class culture and, 155 Kundera and, 243 NP’s ability to keep enemies and, 240 modernist disaffection with, 78 NP’s attitude toward Mailer and, 58 NP and Moynihan’s dedication to, 166 Partisan Review intellectuals and, Orwell on greatest danger to, 133 243 philosophical roots of, 181 Silvers and, 109 See also Kirkpatrick, “Dictatorships and Kramer, Michael, 212 Double Standards”; meritocracy Krauthammer, Charles, 129 liberation theology, Catholicism and, terrorism and, 235–236 230 Kristol, Irving, 30, 32, 48, 51, 64, 67, 149, Lichtheim, George, 53, 82 193, 199, 335 Arendt and, 90 Breaking Ranks and, 200 black delusions about Arabs and, 121 capitalism and, 271 career of, 159–160 Gertrude “Bea” Himmelfarb and, 320 DeMott and, 101 Gorbachev and, 258 depression and suicide of, 160 Latin America and, 230 JFK assassination and, 92 neoconservatism and, 147 “Negro anti-Jewish thing,” 118 NP’s editorial genius and, 273 1968 election and, 115 Kronenberger, Louis, 166 Vietnam and, 114–115 Kundera, Milan, NP’s “open letter” to, Liebowitz, Ruthie Blum (daughter), 71, 96, 243 170, 205, 287 Kunstler, William, Chicago Conspiracy Trial birth of, 53 and, 139 education and career of, 206–207 Lincoln, Abraham, 186 Laqueur, Walter, 188, 244 Lindbergh, Charles, 187 Kissinger’s memoirs and, 352 Lindsay, John, 132

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Lipman, Samuel, NP’s eulogy for, 262–263 McCarthy, Eugene, RFK and, 116 Lipski, Sam, 165 McCarthy, Joseph, NP on, 38 literature McCarthy, Mary, 79, 144, 174 nonﬁction’s postwar supremacy, 61 McGovern, George, 150, 151, 197, NP’s criticism of, 60–61 311 NP’s rejection of “art for art’s sake” in, 101, McNamara, Robert, appeasement and, 232 145 Meany, George, 151 NP’s rejection of politicization of, 145 meritocracy, 23 pornography and, 73–74, 282–283 army and, 42 London, Herb, 21 intellectuals and, 135 Lowell, Robert, 61, 70, 78, 94, 116, 127 sports and, 135 Six-Day War and, 120 Merkin, Daphne Lynd, Staughton, 336 Ex-Friends and, 295 origins of Cold War and, 71 Making It and, 108 Milstein, Tom, Black Panthers and, 139 Macdonald, Dwight, 40, 41, 148, 339 Mitgang, Herbet, 351 Magid, Marion, 223, 255 Morgenthau, Hans J., Vietnam and, 222 eulogies for, 262 Morris, Willie, 94 Mailer, Norman, 116, 201, 294 Mailer and, 97 Castro and, 200 NP’s friendship with, 103–106 Jackie Kennedy and, 92, 94 Moses, 302 Jewishness and, 99 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (“Pat”), 73, 89, JFK assassination and, 92 123, 147, 148, 173, 201, 214, 241, 274, Making It and, 110–112 348, 357 9/11 and, 309 afﬁnities with NP and, 161–162 “Norman Invasion” and, 97 ambassadorship to India and, 163 NP’s early critique of, 56 anniversary tribute to NP and, 240 NP’s friendship with, 55–58 DeGaulle to NP’s Malraux, 166–167 sex and, 98 early career of, 161 Vietnam and, 97–98, 221 equality of opportunity (not results) and, wife-stabbing of, 80–82, 337 137 wives of, 97 Garment and, 180 See also Decter, Midge; Epstein, Joseph; Garment on, 160–161 Ginsberg, Allen; Kramer, Hilton; Trilling, Jacksonite disappointment with, 190–192 Diana; Trilling, Lionel xi, 44, 53 Kissinger and, 186 Malamud, Bernard, 32, 68 Latin America and, 230–231 Malraux, Andre,´ 166 “The Negro Family” and, 137 Anti-Memoirs, 166 NP, Delaware County, and, 123 vocation of, 166–167 NP-like presence at U.N. and, 180–182 Mann, Thomas, 156 “party of liberty” and, 188 Marcus, Steven, 17, 22, 35, 67, 330 quotas and, 133 Cambridge dissertation and, 34 remoralization of America and, 186 Disraeli and, 33 retirement tribute to NP and, 273 Freudianism and, 96 Senate campaign of, 186, 188–190 Marx, Karl Steel and, 211 Jewish Marxists, 307 strains between NP and, 192–194 Jews and, 305 tribute to Commentary and, 170 Masada complex, versus tradition of Samson, U.N. and, 180 196 “The United States in Opposition, 178–179 Mayer, Martin “Was Woodrow Wilson Right?” 177–178 Ford Foundation and, 119 “Zionism-as-racism” crisis and, 182–186 Goodman and, 67–68 Moynihan, Elizabeth (“Liz”), 164, 180, 189, McCain, John, 311, 313 194

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Mudrick, Marvin, Doings and Undoings and, Newton, Maxwell, 25, 165, 330 100 alcoholism and, 165 Munson, Naomi Decter, 45, 52, 71, 96, 127, Australian career of, 165–166 158, 170, 205, 206, 263 Nixon, Richard M., 115, 212 birth of, 20 Doctrine of, 209, 210 marriage of, 207 John Podhoretz and, 205 Munson, Steven, 207, 263 Kissinger and, 219, 220, 221 Murdoch, Rupert, 231, 232 Moynihan and, 188, 194 Murray, Charles, chosen people and, 303 neoconservative vote for, 149, 150 Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita, 283 Northam, John, supervisions by, 24 National Review Novak, Michael, 211, 240 critique of emerging neoconservatives and, nuclear war (nuclear weapons) 148 credible deterrent against Soviet taxonomy of sixties radicals and, 148 conventional forces and, 232 Navasky, Victor, 254, 255, 256 deterrence theory and, 71–72 Nazism, 218, 237, 244 Soviet ﬁrst strike and, 210 neoconservatism, xi threat of, 71 after fall of communism and, 260 See also Hook, Sidney; Hughes, H. Stuart label anxiety and, 147 religious Right and, 267–268 O’Brien, Conor Cruise, Bloody Crossroads See also Himmelfarb, Dan; National Review and, 244 Nesbit, Lynn, 107 O’Malley, Walter, 135 Netanyahu, Benjamin (“Bibi”), 198, 289 Obama, Barack, 311 tribute to NP and, 273 Odets, Clifford, 76, 114 Neuhaus, Richard, 230, 267, 359 Of, Dario, 312 NP’s intensity and, 323 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Rockford Institute and, 256–257 Countries (OPEC) tension with NP over abortion debate and, oil weapon and, 176, 196 292–293 See also Tucker, Robert W. New Class Orlovsky, Peter, 55 McGovern Democrats and, 151 Orwell, George, 186, 243, 270, 352 Roth and, 277 custody ﬁght over, 216–218 See also New Politics greatest danger to liberal democracy and, New Left, 68 133 Glazer on, 78 plain style and, 321 See also Castro, Fidel; counterculture; thirties appeasers and, 202–203 Goodman, Paul; Hayden, Tom Oslo Peace Accords, “peace process” and, New Politics, 153, 161, 193 288–289 CDM and, 152 O’Sullivan, John, 231, 290 See also New Class terrorism and, 236 New York Intellectuals, xii. See also Family (of Ozick, Cynthia, 241, 273 New York Intellectuals) Bloody Crossroads and, 243–244 New York Review of Books, 80, 112, 129 debts to NP and, 147 “boycott” of NP and, 244 “Envy, or, Yiddish in America,” 146 Commentary and, 79 having enemies and, xiii founding of, 78–79 tribute to NP and, 324 Wrong on, 129–131 See also Stone,I.F. paleoconservatism, 150 New Yorker, 41, 44, 61 Israel and, 285 Baldwin and, 84 Rockford Institute and, 256 fee paid by, 51 See also Buchanan, Patrick; Buckley, NP’s writing for, 51 William F., Jr.

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Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Jacqueline Wheldon and, 171 media manipulation and, 198 NP’s adopting Decter girls and, 206 rejectionism of, 130 NP’s late-sixties depression and, 127 See also Arafat, Yassir NP’s viliﬁers and, 228 Palestinians Podhoretz, Julius (father) Fatah and, 288 arrival in America of, 1 Hamas and Islamic Jihad and, 257 character of, 4 intransigence of, 300 decline and death of, 6 trope of them as “new Jews” persecuted by milkman job of, 3–4 “new Nazis,” 195 NP and, 6 See also Arabs; Arafat, Yassir; Palestinian Podhoretz, Millie (sister), 4, 7, 319, 328 Liberation Organization; terrorism; Podhoretz, Norman (general) “Zionism-as-racism” auto-case history and, 83 Paradise Island, 75 importance of, xi–xiii parenting, of Rachel and Naomi, 158–159 individualistic Judaism of, 321–322 Partisan Review intensity of, 322–323 “neutralism” and, 242–243 middle-class loyalty of, 322 “Our Country and Our Culture,” 37–38 oddity of Jewish conservative and, xi patriotism, 27 Podhoretz, Norman (1930–1959) afﬁrmation of in My Love Affair with birth of, 1 America, 298 Yiddish accent of, 3 Cohen’s Commentary as voice of, 38 street education of, 7, 9 Heller’s implied rejection of, 279 early literary education of, 7–8 Howe’s rejection of, 44 Boys High and Mrs. Haft, 8–12 9/11 and, 308 Columbia education of, 13–18, 19–20, 22 NP’s early feeling of, 3 Kellett to Cambridge, 23–28 Orwell and, 217 tripos at Cambridge, 30–31 Rebecca West on, 202 Fulbright to Cambridge, 32–35 Paul (the Apostle) long vacation to Greece and Israel, 28–30 Beethoven and, 297 relations with Jacqueline Clarke, 28–29, Judaism and, 126 35–36, 44–45 Peace Now, 225 early encounter with Commentary, 32 Peres, Shimon, 289 getting to know the Family, 37–40 Peretz, Martin, 223, 238 early book reviewing, 40–42, 51–52 Peterson, Chase M., 134 army service, 42–46 Phillips, William, 41, 80, 174 death of Warshow, 49–50 Pinsker, Sanford, 352 assistant editor at Commentary, 50–51 Podhoretz, Helen Woliner (mother), 6, 169, marriage to Midge Decter, 52 241 struggle at and resignation from character of, 4 Commentary, 52–53 death of, 318 encounters with the Beats and Mailer, early reaction to idea of NP’s marrying 53–58 Decter, 52 book about American writers, 59–61 girlhood of, 1 Cohen’s suicide, 62 young NP and, 4 Podhoretz, Norman (1960–1969) Podhoretz, John Mordecai (son), 95, 169, 194, start of editorship at Commentary, 63–64 331 promotion of counterculture, 64–68 bar mitzvah of, 208 births of Ruthie and John, 71 birth of, 71 decline of offer of New York Review of boyhood of, 205–206 Books editorship, 78–79 Breaking Ranks and, 199 Mailer’s violent party, 81–82 Dalton School and, 170 fracas over “My Negro Problem – and editorship of Commentary and, 315–316 Ours,” 86–89

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Family quarrel over Arendt’s Eichmann, support for Abrams when under indictment, 89–92 263–267 relations with Jackie Kennedy, 92–94 tributes upon retirement from editorship, meeting with LBJ, 94–95 272–275 relations with Morris, 103–106 return to literary criticism, 276–280 conception and consequences of Making It, engagement with sexual politics, 280–284 106–114 polemics on the Middle East, 285–290 encounters with black anti-Semitism, relations with the religious Right, 290–293 117–119 publication of Ex-Friends, 293–296 response to Six-Day War, 119–121 Podhoretz, Norman (2000–2009) uneasiness about “totalitarian emotion in publication of My Love Affair with the air,” 121–122 America, 298–299 reactions to UFT strike, 132–133 experience of 9/11, 307 Podhoretz, Norman (1970–1979) AEI’s Boyer Award, 317–318 epiphany of spring 1970, 123–128 publication of The Prophets, 300–302, abandonment of book on the sixties, 128 303–304 start of counter-countercultural offensive at defense of Bush Doctrine and publication of Commentary, 129–131 World War IV, 307–313, 314–315 engagement in debate between meritocracy Medal of Freedom, 309 and afﬁrmative action, 133–136 adviser for Giuliani and case for bombing death of father, 158 Iran, 313–314 death of Trilling, 156–157 Kozodoy’s retirement, selection of John stepdaughters’ teenage years, 158–159 Podhoretz as new editor, 315–316 relations with and death of Lichtheim, 160 publication of Why Are Jews Liberals? USIA tour of India, Australia, and Far East, 304–307 162–168 Podhoretz, Norman (books of) relations with the Wheldons, 170–172 The Bloody Crossroads, 243: reviews of, relations with Hellman, 172–175 243–245 ally of Moynihan at U.N. and in campaign Breaking Ranks: conception and audience for Senate, 181–191 of, 199–200; reviews of, 200–202 cooler relations with Moynihan, 191–194 Doings and Undoings, 61: reviews of and publication of Breaking Ranks, 199 reactions to, 100–102, 340 Podhoretz, Norman (1980–1989) Ex-Friends: reviews of, 295–296; theme of, children up and out, 205–207 293–294 publication of The Present Danger, Making It: comforting notes on, 113–114; 203–204, 209–211 conception and writing of, 106–108;early publication of Why We Were in Vietnam, reviews of, 109–110; friends’ attitude 220–223 toward, 108; Mailer’s review of, 110–112; syndicated New York Post columns, Rebecca West’s review, 112–113 231–232 My Love Affair with America, 273, banquet celebrating twenty-ﬁfth anniversary 298 as editor, 239–242 The Present Danger:argumentof,209–211; publication of The Bloody Crossroads, Reagan and, 203–205; reviews of, 243–245 211–212 death of Huw Wheldon, 246–247 The Prophets:argumentof,300–302, relations with Allen Ginsberg, 249–252 303–304 relations with Vidal and the Nation, Why Are Jews Liberals?:argumentof, 252–256 304–307 visit to Soviet Union, 259–260 Why We Were in Vietnam: conception and Podhoretz, Norman (1990–1999) argument of, 220–223; reviews of, loss of Jacqueline Wheldon, Dawidowicz, 223–225 Magid, and Lipman, 262–263 World War IV:argumentof,311–313; in Jerusalem during Desert Storm, 287 reviews of, 360

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Podhoretz, Norman (essays and lectures of) Poirier, Richard, 108 “The Abandonment of Israel,” 195–196 pornography, See Podhoretz, Norman (essays “The Adventures of Saul Bellow,” 40–41 and lectures of), “Lolita,My “Arendt on Eichmann, A Study in the Mother-in-Law, the Marquis de Sade, and Perversity of Brilliance,” 90–92 Larry Flynt”; “Sex, Pornography, and “The Arnoldian Function in American Literature” Criticism,” 27 prophets (Hebrew) “The Case for Bombing Iran,” 313–314 liberal interpreters of, 300–301, 302 “The Culture of Appeasement,” 202–203 monotheism and commandment to “choose “The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name,” life,” 301–302 255 Protestant fundamentalists, 267, 291 “How the Gay-Rights Movement Won,” support for Israel and, 292 281 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 185, 254, “How to Win World War IV,” 307–308 292 “If Orwell Were Alive Today,” 217–218 “In Defense of Editing,” 145–146 Queen Elizabeth II, coronation of, 34 “In Israel – With Grandchildren,” 289 “Is America Falling Apart?” (talk), 163 Rabin, Yitzhak “Israel and the United States, A Complex assassination of, 289 History,” 289–290 “peace process” and, 288–289 “J’Accuse,” 225–227 Rabinowitz, Dorothy, 133 “Kissinger Reconsidered,” 218–220 NP’s stalwartness and, 322 “The Know-Nothing Bohemians,” 53–54 race relations (blacks and Jews) “The Literary Light as Eternal Flame,” Brownsville and, 7 144–145 chapter in sixties book about, 136–139 “Lolita, My Mother-in-Law, the Marquis de See also Baldwin, James; Podhoretz, Sade, and Larry Flynt,” 282–283 Norman (essays and lectures of), “My “Making the World Safe for Communism,” Negro Problem” 177, 187–188, 191 Raffel, Burton, 87 “My Negro Problem – and Ours,” 86–89 Rahv, Philip, 37 “The Neo-Conservative Anguish Over Arendt and, 90 Reagan’s Foreign Policy,” 215 NP’s induction into the Family and, 41 “New Defenders of Capitalism,” 228, Reagan, Ronald, 222 271–272 Bitburg and, 236–237 “Norman Mailer, the Embattled Vision,” Democratic past of, 193 57 Jackson Democrats and, 153 “On Reading for Pleasure Again,” 276–277 NP’s “J’Accuse” and, 227 “An Open Letter to Milan Kundera,” 243 NP’s impressions of, 214–216 “Our Changing Ideals, as Seen on TV,” 39 The Present Danger and, 211, 212 “Science Hasn’t Killed God,” 296 Republican “party of ideas” and, “Sex, Pornography, and Literature” 204–205 (lecture), 73–74 See also Kirkpatrick, Jeane “‘Sexgate,’ the Sisterhood, and Mr. Reiser, Pete, 135 Bumble,” 283–284 residences (NP and family) “Sports in America – Larger than Life” “farm” in Delaware County, 123 (talk), 135–136 Fire Island cottage, 69 “The State of World Jewry,” 235 larger house in East Hampton, 350 “The Terrible Question of Aleksandr “shack” in East Hampton, 205 Solzhenitsyn,” 233–235 upper East Side, 205 “Was Bach Jewish?,” 296–297 upper West Side, 333 “The Young Generation,” 65–67 Revel, Jean-Franc¸ois, 224, 236 Podhoretz, Runyeh (paternal grandmother), 2 Rexroth, Kenneth, 135 Podhoretz, Yidl (paternal grandfather), 2 Riesman, David, 32, 87, 120

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Robertson, Pat, alleged anti-Semitism of, Arabs and, 195, 199 291–292 arms race with, 190–191 Robinson, Aubrey, 265 exhausted power of, 191 Rodden, John, 218 nonaligned nations as tool of, 183 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 9, 57, 186, 270 unappeasability of, 212 Rosenberg, Harold, 79 Spielvogel, Carl, 10–11 Rosenfeld, Megan, 207 Stacy, Paul H., 21 Rostow, Eugene V., Vietnam and, 115, 220 Stalin, Joseph (Stalinism, Stalinist), 28, 46, 57, Rostropovich, Mstislav, 260 64, 65, 71, 149, 154, 165, 172, 173, 174, Roth, Philip, 74, 93 175, 234, 258, 259, 303, 306, 311, 335, Beats and, 54 374 NP on nineties novels of, 277–278 Steel, Ronald Ozick and, 146 “Relax, Commentary,” 177 “You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He The Present Danger and, 211 Sings” and, 145 Steinfels, Peter, 349 Rothbard, Murray N., 201 Stone, I. F, Rumsfeld, Donald, 314 Israeli-Palestinian conﬂict and, 140–141 Russell, Bertrand, 298 NP’s implied reply to, 141–142 Rustin, Bayard, 136 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 352 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT-I, Saﬁre, William, 211, 232 SALT-II) Said, Edward, 225 Kissinger and, 187 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 28, 140, 251 NP and Moynihan on, 192–193 Satan, in Genesis, 128 Straus, Roger, 106, 341 Schechner, Mark, 106 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 76, Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 302 77, 167, 312 Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 57 suicide, 1, 16 Why We Were in Vietnam and, 224 Garment’s wife and, 180 Schwartz, Delmore, 38 homosexuals and, 253 Scranton, William, U.N. and, 195 Islamic terrorists and, 300 Shakespeare, William, 8, 16 Israel’s self-defense as “only real alternative Shanker, Albert, 118 to,” 141 Shawn, William, 41, 84, 85 NP’s epiphany and, 126 Sheed, Wilfrid “satanic idea” rejected by Wheldon, 247 Making It and, 109–110 See also Cohen, Elliot; Lichtheim, George; NP’s unwillingness to forgive, 323 Masada complex Shulberg, Budd, 17 supersessionists (Christian), dispensationalists Siegman, Henry, 306 and, 358 Silvers, Robert, 78, 79, 109 Six-Day War terrorism (terrorists) “choosing life” and, 141–142 media and, 235–236 reactions to, 119–120 NP on, 198–199 Smith, Gerard, appeasement and, 232 See also Intifada I; Intifada II Snow, C. P., New Left and, 79 Thomas, Dylan, 246 Sobran, Joseph, anti-Semitism and, 237–238 Thompson, John (“Jack”), 70 social democrats, 124, 151, 260, 307. See also character of, 70 democratic socialism Making It and, 108 Solotaroff, Theodore, NP and, 74–75 NP’s epiphany and, 127 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 244, 292 totalitarian (totalitarianism), 122, 187, 216, achievement of, 233–235 241, 244, 250, 255, 304 Sontag, Susan, 53, 58, 200, 242, 309 Bitburg controversy and, 237 Sorensen, Theodore C., 191 Black Panthers and, 139 Soviet Union building free societies after fall of, 308, 312

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totalitarian (totalitarianism) (cont.) social classes in America and, 76 CDM and, 152 “What kind of power was [NP] after?,” Family opposition to right- and left-wing 31–32 versions of, 64 See also Crews, Frederick; Kernan, Alvin, Gorbachev and, 258 15, 26, 329 Heller and, 278 Truman, Harry, 42, 71 Hook and, 72, 216 Doctrine of, 209, 311 Latin America and, 229 Tuchman, Barbara, 167, 274 New Left’s populist brand of, 77, 100 Tucker, Robert W., 214 paleoconservatism and, 149 OPEC challenge and, 176 religion of, 271 Twain, Mark, 8 Vietnam and, 115, 221, 222 Jews and, 303 See also Arendt, Hannah; Hitler, Adolf; Tynan, Kenneth, 80 Kirkpatrick, Jeane (“Dictatorships and Double Standards”); Orwell, George; Uganda, 198 Podhoretz, Norman (“Making the World murders in, 183 Safe for Communism,” The Present United Federation of Teachers (UFT), strike in Danger); Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr; Soviet fall 1968 of, 132–133 Union; Stalin, Joseph, 38, 105 United Nations (U.N.), See Kirkpatrick, Jeane; Trilling, Diana, 18, 31, 55, 58, 64, 96, 100, Moynihan, Daniel Patrick; 108, 116, 172, 320 “Zionism-as-racism” Lionel’s funeral and, 156–157 Trilling, James, 156 Vaughan, Henry, 125 Trilling, Lionel, 41, 60, 66, 71, 103, 131, Vidal, Gore, 27, 256, 267, 330 292 Brown and, 335 NP’s relations with, 252–256 Burkean conservatism of, 25 Vietnam War, 149 death of Warshow, mentoring of NP, and, AFL-CIO and, 151 50 Carterite appeasement in reaction to, Elizabeth II’s coronation and, 34 202–203 “fatigue” and death of, 153–156 early Commentary criticism of, funeral of, 156–157 114–115 Howe’s “Age of Conformity” and, 44 Family consensus on, 79 impression made by NP on, 21 Glazer on, 78 Jewish tradition and, 19–20 lessons of, 188, 197 Leavis and, 26–27 Mailer on, 97 The Liberal Imagination, 330 pessimism following defeat in, 177, Mailer and, 57, 82 178 Making It and, 108, 341 Tonkin Gulf and, 69 Marcus and, 330 See also Kissinger, Henry; Nixon, Richard model man of letters, 18–19 M.; Podhoretz, Norman (books of), Why “Norman Invasion” and, 97 We Were in Vietnam; Rostow, Eugene V. NP, Hook, and, 340 Village Voice, cartoon of NP and, 201 NP’s “charismatic quality” and, 41–42 NP’s Columbia education and, 17 Wain, John NP’s Doings and, 101–102 “Abandonment of Israel” and, 196 NP’s “foster father,” 27 tribute to NP and Commentary from, NP’s “My Negro Problem” and, 87 272–273 NP’s letter from Israel as recommendation Waldheim, Kurt, 183, 347 to Cohen, 29–30 Walsh, Lawrence E., prosecution of Abrams “revisionist liberalism” and, 340 and, 264–267 sixties students’ repetition of thirties errors Walzer, Michael, 238, 306 and, 78 Warnke, Paul, Moynihan and, 190–191

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Warshow, Robert (“Bob”), 32, 37, 39, 40, 41, Wieseltier, Leon, 237 42 Will, George F., 215, 237, 252 death of, 49–50 Breaking Ranks and, 200 Wattenberg, Ben, 162 Willcox, Christopher, 360 Weathermen, 77, 140, 292 Willis, Ellen, Breaking Ranks and, 201 Weaver, Suzanne, 180, 182, 188 Wilson, Edmund, 59, 61, 93 Webb, James, 279 Making It and, 107–108 Weigel, George, 230 New York circle of Jackie Kennedy and, 94 abortion and, 292 NP’s “My Negro Problem” and, 89 just war theory and, 286 Wilson, James Q. (“Jim”), xii, 180, 193 media anti-Catholicism and, 267 Wilson, Woodrow, 177 NP’s “rabbinic determination” and, xii–xiii Wilsonian idealism, 177, 178, 181, 209, Weiss, Peter, Marat/Sade, 143 219, 221, 291, 311 Wenham, Brian, 261 Winchell, Mark Royden, 352 West, Rebecca, Making It and, 112–113 Winegarten, Renee, 129, 160 Weyrich, Paul, 293 Wisse, Ruth, 332 Wheldon, Huw, 163, 170, 171, 284, 317 Decter and, 214 Ferris’s biography of, 261–262 NP’s “no apologies” style and, 322 illness of, 172 Podhoretzes’ partnership and, 319–320 knighthood of, 171 tribute to NP, 273 Moynihan campaign, 190 Wolfe, Bertram D., 65, 335 NP’s relations with, 47–48, 171 Wolfe, Tom NP’s response to last illness and death of, “Radical Chic,” 131–132 246–247 Solzhenitsyn and, 233–234 Wheldon, Jacqueline Clarke, 39, 42, 96, 170, Woliner, Esther Malkah (maternal 214, 331, 356 grandmother), 1 anguish over Ferris biography, and her Woliner, M’shitzik (maternal grandfather), 1 death, 261–262 Woliner, Max, 3 Decter’s condolences after Huw’s death, Woodward, Bob, 236 247 Wordsworth, William, 156 hope that Decter would write on women Wrong, Dennis and family issues, 97 Castro and New Left and, 77 marriage to Huw, 47 New York Review and, 130–131 Moynihan and, 178 NP’s Breaking Ranks and, 200 Yaddo, 106, 122, 123, 124 NP’s meeting with and character of, 28–29 Yom Kippur War, 168, 175, 195, 198, 346 NP’s remembrance of their days in London, Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL), 131, 44–45 153 raising children, 95 relations between Wheldons and Zasloff, Joseph J., Vietnam and, 222 Podhoretzes, 171–172 Zionism, 159, 182, 184 talk of marriage with NP, 35–36 Zionism-as-racism (U.N. Resolution 3379), unﬁnished novel of, 171 See Herzog, Chaim; Israel; Moynihan, “Youngs” and, 170 Daniel Patrick Wheldon, Wynn, 48, 95, 171, 262 Zionism-as-racism (U.N. Resolution), White, Barbara M., 182 182–186 Whitman, Walt, 8, 54 Zola, Emile,´ 225