ASSIMILATING THE AMERICAN DREAM THE RIGHT WAY: NORMAN PODHORETZ’S MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH AMERICA: THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF A CHEERFUL CONSERVATIVE
ASSIMILATING THE AMERICAN DREAM THE RIGHT WAY: NORMAN PODHORETZ’S MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH AMERICA: THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF A CHEERFUL CONSERVATIVE

Summary/Abstract: Norman Podhoretz proposes an incursion in his past with his 2001 autobiography, My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative, meant to glorify the hold America has on him and the impact it had on shaping his identity. Podhoretz unabashedly shapes his narrative spanning over seven decades around and in adamant support of the notion of assimilation and Americanization. Running as a parallel concept, Podhoretz employs all narrative artifices available for making the case of political conservatism, offering his own conversion from a leftist 1960s intellectual to a neoconservative pundit of the 21st century. In his typically instructive account, he follows the lines of Franklin and Jefferson, placing America on a sacred pedestal, and allowing no room for an internal conflict of hyphenation.

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