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Author: John Ehrman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780300068702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeoconservatism evolved in the USA from the anti-communist coalition that dominated liberalism from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. In this book, Ehrman discusses how big an influence the group has had on American politics, foreign policy in particular, through the decades since then.
Author: Jacob Heilbrunn
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-01-06
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0307472485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its origins in 1930s Marxism to its unprecedented influence on George W. Bush's administration, neoconservatism has become one of the most powerful, reviled, and misunderstood intellectual movements in American history. But who are the neocons, and how did this obscure group of government officials, pundits, and think-tank denizens rise to revolutionize American foreign policy?Political journalist Jacob Heilbrunn uses his intimate knowledge of the movement and its members to write the definitive history of the neoconservatives. He sets their ideas in the larger context of the decades-long battle between liberals and conservatives, first over communism, and now over the war on terrorism. And he explains why, in spite of their misguided policy on Iraq, they will remain a permanent force in American politics.
Author: Justin Vaïsse
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-05-21
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780674050518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents neo-conservatism in three ages covering the history, and illuminating core developments, including the split of liberalism, and the shifting relationship of party affiliation and foreign policy position.
Author: Murray Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521545013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 neocons 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 lightning 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 Neoconservative Revolution.
Author: Douglas Murray
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-06-29
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1458779912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeo conservatism: Why We Need It is a defense of the most controversial political philosophy of our era. Douglas Murray takes a fresh look at the movement that replaced Great-Society liberalism, helped Ronald Reagan bring down the Wall, and provided the intellectual rationale for the Bush administration's War on Terror. While others are blaming it for foreign policy failures and, more extremely, attacking it as a ''Jewish cabal,'' Murray argues that the West needs Neo conservatism more than ever. In addition to explaining what Neo conservatism is and where it came from, he argues that this American-born response to the failed policies of the 1960s is the best approach to foreign affairs not only for the United States but also for Britain and the West as well.
Author: Nathan Abrams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 144113154X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does the term "neoconservative" mean? Who are we talking about and where did they come from? Abrams answers those very questions through a detailed and critical study of neoconservatism's leading thinker, Norman Podhoretz, and the magazine he edited for 35 years, Commentary. Podhoretz has been described as "the conductor of the neocon orchestra" and through Commentary Podhoretz powerfully shaped neoconservatism. Rich in research, the book is based upon a wide range of sources, including archival and other material never before published in the context of Commentary magazine, including Podhoretz's private papers. It argues that much of what has been said about neoconservatism is the product of willful distortion and exaggeration both by the neoconservatives themselves and their many enemies. From this unique perspective, Abrams examines the origins, rise, and fall of neoconservatism. In understanding Podhoretz, a figure often overlooked, this book sheds light on the origins, ideas, and intellectual pedigree of neoconservatism.
Author: Irving Kristol
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995-09-20
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0028740211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are the best of Kristol's now famous essays on society, religion, morals, culture, literature, education, and on the values issues which have come to define the neoconservative critique of contemporary life. These essays display the provocative ideas and style that have caused Irving Kristol to be justly regarded as the "godfather" of the conservative movement.
Author: Ben J. Wattenberg
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-07-08
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780312382995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter more than 40 years as a Washington insider, the former liberal presidential aide turned neo-conservative and Ronald Reagan's favorite Democrat offers a frank, biting narrative of his life in the political arena.
Author: Antti Lepistö
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 022677404X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In considering the lodestars of American neoconservative thought-among them Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, James Q. Wilson, and Francis Fukuyama-Antti Lepistö makes a compelling case for the centrality of their conception of "the common man" in accounting for the enduring power and influence of their thought. Lepistö locates the roots of this conception in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. Subsequently, the neoconservatives weaponized the ideas of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to denounce postwar liberal elites, educational authorities, and social reformers-ultimately giving rise to a defining force in American politics: the "common sense" of "the common man.""--
Author: Gary Dorrien
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1135931011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work argues that the influence of neoconservatives has been none too small and all too important in the shaping of this monumental doctrine and historic moment in American foreign policy. Through a fascinating account of the central figures in the neoconservative movement and their push for war with Iraq, he reveals the imperial designs that have guided them in their quest for the establishment of a global Pax Americana.
