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Neoconservatism is more of a disposition than a single political
theory, but it is an attitude that has had a profound impact on the
broader conservative effort in the United States since the Fifties.
It is a unique blend of skepticism and fortitude about a host of
wide-ranging issues, spanning culture, economics, and national
defense. This book looks at six neoconservative intellectuals
Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Norman Podhoretz, Midge
Decter, Daniel Bell, and Nathan Glazer and the intellectual
influences on their thinking about the defects of communism,
fascism, progressivism, the dominant American culture, and even
capitalism itself. This book looks at the gestation of political
criticism within the pages of the neoconservatives own writings, as
well as the books they read and the thinkers they either learned
from or came to fear. The book looks at the ways in which the
neoconservatives adapted Lenin s formula for success to
conservative efforts in the United States, arguing that
neoconservatism is an anti-ideology ideology, in that it considers
a New Class of professional, ideologically motivated reformers to
be the greatest problem facing the United States because of their
increased efforts to technocratize ordinary life, their moral
relativism, their efforts to usurp human nature and supplant it
with their own utopian visions, their anti-Americanism, and their
unwillingness to face imminent dangers threatening the American way
of life. The book argues that the neoconservative political
strategy is to take the fight to the enemy.
For forty years, the neoconservatives have been an influential wing
on the American Right. Their critics accuse them of being more
loyal to a foreign government than to American interests. But is
that true? In this book, the author argues that their support of
Israel is rooted just as much in their liberal-democratic
priorities.
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