The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public PolicyThis 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. |
Contents
American Jews in an Age of Conservatism page | 1 |
Jews and the Making of the Cosmopolitan Culture | 12 |
The Premature Jewish Neoconservatives | 28 |
Forgotten Jewish Godfathers | 44 |
The Liberal Civil War | 62 |
The Modernization of American Conservatism | 80 |
The Liberal Meltdown | 100 |
The Rise of the Neoconservatives | 116 |
Neoconservatives and the Reagan Revolution | 137 |
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