Thomas L. Jeffers, a Yale PhD and a Professor of Literature at Marquette University, earlier taught at Cornell and Harvard, where he was a Mellon Fellow. Author of Samuel Butler Revalued (1981) and Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana (2005), he has also published pieces in numerous journals, including the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, Raritan, and Commentary. In 2004 he edited The Norman Podhoretz Reader, which provided the inspiration for this book.

"Jeffers...skillfully weaves together these and other stories of Podhoretz's dramatic ascent to the peak of influence within the liberal intellectual world." -David Linker, New York Times

• Prologue; 1. Brownsville; 2. Columbia; 3. Cambridge; 4. The family and the army; 5. The practicing critic; 6. Boss; 7. 'This was bigger than both of us'; 8. One shoe drops; 9. Dropping the other shoe; 10. Liberalism lost; 11. George Lichtheim, Pat Moynihan, and a lecture tour; 12. Domesticities, Lillian Hellman, and the question of America's nerve; 13. Moynihan, Podhoretz, and 'the party of liberty'; 14. Breaking and closing ranks; 15. Present dangers; 16. 'The great satan of the American romantic left'; 17. Regulated hatreds; 18. Culture wars; 19. A literary Indian summer; 20. Verdicts; 21. New wars for a new century; Epilogue.

Thomas L. Jeffers, a Yale PhD and a Professor of Literature at Marquette University, earlier taught at Cornell and Harvard, where he was a Mellon Fellow. Author of Samuel Butler Revalued (1981) and Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana (2005), he has also published pieces in numerous journals, including the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, Raritan, and Commentary. In 2004 he edited The Norman Podhoretz Reader, which provided the inspiration for this book.

"Jeffers...skillfully weaves together these and other stories of Podhoretz's dramatic ascent to the peak of influence within the liberal intellectual world." -David Linker, New York Times

• Prologue; 1. Brownsville; 2. Columbia; 3. Cambridge; 4. The family and the army; 5. The practicing critic; 6. Boss; 7. 'This was bigger than both of us'; 8. One shoe drops; 9. Dropping the other shoe; 10. Liberalism lost; 11. George Lichtheim, Pat Moynihan, and a lecture tour; 12. Domesticities, Lillian Hellman, and the question of America's nerve; 13. Moynihan, Podhoretz, and 'the party of liberty'; 14. Breaking and closing ranks; 15. Present dangers; 16. 'The great satan of the American romantic left'; 17. Regulated hatreds; 18. Culture wars; 19. A literary Indian summer; 20. Verdicts; 21. New wars for a new century; Epilogue.

Thomas L. Jeffers, a Yale PhD and a Professor of Literature at Marquette University, earlier taught at Cornell and Harvard, where he was a Mellon Fellow. Author of Samuel Butler Revalued (1981) and Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana (2005), he has also published pieces in numerous journals, including the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, Raritan, and Commentary. In 2004 he edited The Norman Podhoretz Reader, which provided the inspiration for this book.

"Jeffers...skillfully weaves together these and other stories of Podhoretz's dramatic ascent to the peak of influence within the liberal intellectual world." -David Linker, New York Times

• Prologue; 1. Brownsville; 2. Columbia; 3. Cambridge; 4. The family and the army; 5. The practicing critic; 6. Boss; 7. 'This was bigger than both of us'; 8. One shoe drops; 9. Dropping the other shoe; 10. Liberalism lost; 11. George Lichtheim, Pat Moynihan, and a lecture tour; 12. Domesticities, Lillian Hellman, and the question of America's nerve; 13. Moynihan, Podhoretz, and 'the party of liberty'; 14. Breaking and closing ranks; 15. Present dangers; 16. 'The great satan of the American romantic left'; 17. Regulated hatreds; 18. Culture wars; 19. A literary Indian summer; 20. Verdicts; 21. New wars for a new century; Epilogue.