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Norman Podhoretz: A Biography. Thomas L. Jeffers. Cambridge University Press, 2010. FOR SIXTY YEARS, Norman Podhoretz has consistently ranked amongst America’s more influential, and also more controversial, political and cultural writers. And for much of that time he has been neoconservatism’s premier salesman in the market of ideas. Neoconservatism was never an ideology or a [...]