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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Sep 2020

    Hypothesis: All memoirs by right-wing pundits are attempts to answer the question, "why does no one like me?" See: Toby Young's How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Barbara Amiel's Friends & Enemies. Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends. Martin Peretz's promised The Book of Grudges.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Sep 2020

        The great exception to this rule is William F. Buckley, who God knows had his faults but also had the gift for friendship. His memoirs aren't spiteful but, on the contrary, suffer from the complacency of untroubled happiness.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Sep 2020

        The prototype of the right-wing memoirist who revels in being hated is Wyndham Lewis, the great & terrible monster of modernism. He once published a one-man magazine called The Enemy & wrote two grudge-filled memoirs (Blasting and Bombardiering, Rude Assignment)

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      1. Dan Davies‏ @dsquareddigest 6 Sep 2020
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        Roger Simon's "Blacklisting Myself" if you want a deep cut

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      1. Loud Angry Groan‏ @Trav_Is_A_Kook 6 Sep 2020
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        How do square this hypothesis against Al Franken's transparent attempts at making enemies as a lefty memoirist?

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      2. MATTMcAllister‏ @Catfatmatty 6 Sep 2020
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        Norman Podheretz was bullied for recognizing a jewish kid from Brooklyn could ascend to the heights he did, and was shunned by his patrician Manhattanites snob friends for acknowledging it.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Sep 2020
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        MMMM. No. His trajectory from Brooklyn to literary success was widely shared by his cohort (see Howe, Kazin, etc). He was mocked because he treated what was a commonplace story as a great achievement & published a book on his own greatness at age 37.

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      2. Alan Pennue‏ @AlanPennue 6 Sep 2020
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        It's easy to mock her recent discovery that quite a few anti - Communists are really horrible people but it's a useful warning at least in The USA where the effects of Cold War propaganda have been lasting.

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      1. Roz Milner‏ @milnerwords 6 Sep 2020
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        This reminded me of how when Heller turned on Podhoretz, he said he wouldn’t give Norm the chance to dump him

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      1. Andy Beaton‏ @aiabx 6 Sep 2020
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        I read an excerpt from Barbara’s memoir. To paraphrase Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to read of her sufferings without laughing.

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