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• a book about the pursuit of ambition, a study of how certain Americans transform themselves in order to get ahead in the world, and how, once upon a time, many of them steadfastly preferred not to admit their ambitions, even to themselves.
• in irreconcilable tension with each other.
• “how the two warring American attitudes toward the pursuit of success are likely to reveal themselves concretely in the details of an individual career.”
• Commentary, which he edited from 1960 to 1995, was so much a part of the liberal scene
• Nowadays, by contrast, he is best remembered as one of the apostles of neoconservatism,