Making It is a 1967 memoir by Norman Podhoretz in which he examines his experiences in the New York literary world, critiquing the culture of envy among intellectuals and defending personal ambition and material success as legitimate pursuits. The book sparked controversy and provoked intense backlash from progressive literary circles, including personal attacks in publications like The New York Review of Books, marking his break from the left and contributing to his estrangement from the New Left while presaging his ideological evolution toward neoconservatism. It remains a seminal work on mid-century American intellectual life and the politics of success.