Ex-friends
Subtitle: falling out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
By: Norman Podhoretz.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Podhoretz, Norman -- Friends and associates.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.; Critics -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer - all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group of New York intellectuals who came to be known as "the Family." As only a family member could, Podhoretz tells the story of these friendships, once central to his life, and shows how the political and cultural struggles of the past fifty years made them impossible to sustain.

With wit, piercing insight, and startling honesty, we are introduced as never before to a type of person for whom ideas were often matters of life and death, and whose passing from the scene has left so large a gap in American culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.