Papers, 1951-1982 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, memoranda, diary, journal, writings, speeches, transcripts of interviews, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and other papers, relating primarily to Podhoretz's career as an author, intellectual, and editor of Commentary. Includes correspondence, research materials, and drafts for Podhoretz's literary, social, and political criticism published in articles, short stories, and books, which reflect his political transition from advocate of left-wing liberal ideology to leading spokesman for neoconservative philosophy. Topics include censorship, the Middle East, military readiness, politics, social and cultural issues such as poverty and racism, travels to Asia, Australia, and India in the 1970s and 1980s, the Vietnamese Conflict, and individuals including Saul Bellow, Albert Camus, Benjamin Disraeli, F.R. Leavis, and Edmund Wilson. Correspondents include Eldridge Cleaver, Midge Decter, Allen Ginsberg, Lilian Hellman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Susan Sontag, Terry Southern, Diana Trilling, Lionel Trilling, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr