My Love Affair With America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative

by Norman Podhoretz

My Love Affair with America is more than the poignant recovery of lost time. Podhoretz uses his own experience to launch a strong defense of America and American values at a time when he fears that his fellow conservatives are in danger of following the path of the New Left into contempt for their native land. The gratitude Podhoretz feels for the United States is a challenge to the political Right as well as the Left.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Politics, Biography Memoir

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Norman Podhoretz is an American neoconservative writer and editor.

Reviews

[Raymond Rockwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

"I goink op de stez," replied the narrator to a teacher's challenge back in elementary school--and she promptly routed him to remediation instead. Today, someone's ethnicity would be offended, the teacher's presumptiousness excoriated. But this was the beginning of a love affair with a land of opportunity, for a very young Podhoretz.

Obviously, education invited; ability and application requited. But as the son of eastern European immigrants grew on and up, he grew away from his attachment to America and became critical if not inimical, like many other intellectuals of his time. This book encompasses the processes at work, including those that brought him back.