Mixing It Up With Martin Peretz

Martin Peretz is known to all as “Marty,” a jaunty diminutive that captures the essence and aura of a cocksure man who is, as well, cultured and likable. He is also restless, even agitated, in the way of many American Jews of his generation, whose default setting was an interminable quest for both upward mobility and a voice in all the decisive debates over America’s destiny.