- Published: 18 May 2017
- ISBN: 9781681370804
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $38.00
Making It
- Published: 18 May 2017
- ISBN: 9781681370804
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $38.00
"A frank and honest book...high-stepping brilliance...tactfully and touchingly revealing of the fearful ambitions of Podhoretz's family...Podhoretz has 'allowed himself to be fully known' and so may give the key to the B.Y.M. (Bright Young Men) of the next generation, which will allow them to shuck the iron mask of premature intellectual good taste and join in the common pursuit of self-knowledge and self-expression."--Frederic Raphael, The New York Times
"This masterpiece of American autobiography is the tale of a striving, self-mythologized, and nearly Melvillean figure crashing toward his own salvation--and more...Nearly 50 years on, it's clear that, to paraphrase Dostoevsky on Gogol, we all come out from Podhoretz's overcoat." --Lee Smith, Tablet