{"product_id":"9781681370811","title":"Making It","description":"\u003cb\u003eA controversial memoir about American intellectual life and  academia and the relationship between politics, money, and education.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorman Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough  Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia University on a  scholarship, and later received degrees from the Jewish Theological  Seminary and Cambridge University. \u003ci\u003eMaking It \u003c\/i\u003eis his blistering  account of fighting his way out of Brooklyn and into, then out of, the  Ivory Tower, of his military service, and finally of his induction into  the ranks of what he calls “the Family,” the small group of left-wing  and largely Jewish critics and writers whose opinions came to dominate  and increasingly politicize the American literary scene in the fifties  and sixties. It is a Balzacian story of raw talent and relentless and  ruthless ambition. It is also a closely observed and in many ways  still-pertinent analysis of the tense and more than a little duplicitous  relationship that exists in America between intellect and imagination,  money, social status, and power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Family responded to the book  with outrage, and Podhoretz soon turned no less angrily on them,  becoming the fierce neoconservative he remains to this day. Fifty years  after its first publication, this controversial and legendary book  remains a riveting autobiography, a book that can be painfully revealing  about the complex convictions and needs of a complicated man as well as  a fascinating and essential document of mid-century American cultural  life.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174026363120,"sku":"9781681370811","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681370811_p0.jpg?v=1763692512","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681370811","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}