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Jun 29, 2023 · Marty Peretz’s “The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center” is a memoir that doubles as a Grand Tour of American intellectual and political life in the second half of the 20th century and the first fifth of the 21st. Now in his ninth decade, Mr. Peretz has made fierce friends and implacable enemies.
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 ...
Aug 31, 2023 · Peretz shows us what was happening behind the scenes in Washington’s hottest magazine. From his initial purchase of the magazine, with the help of his wife, a Singer sewing machine heiress, to the collection of the ideologically eclectic and talented staff and the fights they engaged in, Peretz gives TNR lovers the backstory they would have craved during the magazine’s heyday.
Jul 11, 2023 · Marty Peretz is frequently regarded as a staunch defender of his unwavering opinions. However, reading his autobiography reveals a striking contrast: Marty emerges as a preeminent authority on the mechanics of thought, adept at uncovering truths.
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Jul 10, 2023 · A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost. American magazine owner Martin Peretz and editor Hedrick Hertzberg, of the New Republic magazine, Washington DC, August 1984. (Photo by Cynthia Johnson/Getty Images)
May 26, 2024 · Marty Peretz has led a large life, one he recounts with aplomb in his autobiography, The Controversialist. As publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 1974 to 2012, he transformed ...
Dec 28, 2010 · Benjamin Wallace-Wells chronicles the path that created Peretz's "belligerent" personality and his relentless devotion to Israel. The author follows Peretz in the wake of his latest, and perhaps ...
