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Oct 2, 2023 · THE CONTROVERSIALIST: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center, by Martin Peretz. “When you talk about politics,” the critic Irving Howe said, “you should stand.”. Martin Peretz ...
Dec 6, 2023 · For now, it should be added that Peretz’s book is so vivid. Brutally so at times, uplifting at others. One anecdote comes from Peretz’s early life that arguably helps inform his father’s ...
Jul 7, 2023 · Listen. (4 min) Martin Peretz reads the Oct. 20, 1973, issue of the New Republic in Cambridge, Mass., the first issue after his purchase of the magazine. Photo: Arthur Grace. Martin Peretz is ...
Jul 11, 2023 · The Controversialist by Martin Perez (July 11, 2023, 386 pages) is Peretz’ memoir about his life, primarily the nearly forty years he spent at the helm of the New Republic magazine. What is fascinating is just how much Peretz came to know intimately people who became movers and shakers in the political world from Anthony Blinken to Albert Gore to Caroline Kennedy to Susan Sontag and John Kerry.
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Jun 19, 2023 · by Jacob Heilbrunn June 19, 2023. In his new memoir, The Controversialist, Martin Peretz offers a gritty, propulsive, and fascinating account of his career. (Via Jewish News Syndicate) The art ...
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The Controversialist begins in a vibrant but tragedy-stricken community of Yiddish Jews in his native Bronx and takes Peretz, blessed with that rare trait of always being in the right place at the right time, into the same rooms as some of the most prominent writers, thinkers, businessmen, activists, and politicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Aug 31, 2023 · On another occasion, the 73-year-old Norman Mailer didn’t like a TNR review of one of his books and sucker-punched Peretz in the stomach. Peretz does not seem too bothered by either of these incidents, which indicates how often TNR was offending people in those days. In that vein, the most enjoyable part of the book is Peretz’s sharp pen.
