The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy

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Pub. Date: 2006-10-09
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This book which will come as a surprise to many educated observers and historians suggests that Jews and Jewish intellectuals have played a considerable role in the development and shaping of modern American conservatism. The focus is on the rise of a group of Jewish intellectuals and activists known as neoconservatives who began to impact on American public policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union and most recently in the lead up to and invasion of Iraq. It presents a portrait of the life and work of the original and small group of neo cons including Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and Sidney Hook. This group has grown into a new generation who operate as columnists in conservative think tanks like The Heritage and The American Enterprise Institute, at colleges and universities, and in government in the second Bush Administration including such lightening rod figures as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Elliot Abrams. The book suggests the neo cons have been so significant in reshaping modern American conservatism and public policy that they constitute a Neo Conservative Revolution as the book's title suggests.

Table of Contents

Introduction: American Jews in an Age of Conservatism 1(11)
Jews and the Making of the Cosmopolitan Culture
12(16)
The Premature Jewish Neoconservatives
28(16)
Forgotten Jewish Godfathers
44(18)
The Liberal Civil War
62(18)
The Modernization of American Conservatism
80(20)
The Liberal Meltdown
100(16)
The Rise of the Neoconservatives
116(21)
Neoconservatives and the Reagan Revolution
137(24)
Nicaragua: The Cold War Comes to This Hemisphere
161(16)
Irving Kristol and a New Vision of Capitalism
177(8)
The Neoconservative Assault on the Counterculture
185(20)
Jews and the Christian Right
205(18)
Epilogue
223(20)
Notes 243(48)
Index 291

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