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

This book is the first history of the development of American Jewish political conservatism.The first history of the development of American Jewish political conservatism and the rise of a group of Jewish intellectuals and activists known as neo conservatives. It describes their growth from the 1940s to the present and their powerful impact on American public policy, including Iraq.The first history of the development of American Jewish political conservatism and the rise of a group of Jewish intellectuals and activists known as neo conservatives. It describes their growth from the 1940s to the present and their powerful impact on American public policy, including Iraq.This is the first history of the development of American Jewish political conservatism and the rise of a group of Jewish intellectuals and activists who are known as neoconservatives. It describes the growth of perhaps a dozen such figures in the 1940s and 50s, including Irving Kristol, Nathan Glazer and Norman Podhoretz, to several hundred younger people such as Paul Wolfowitz, David Brooks and Charles Krauthammer who have had a powerful impact on American public policy, including the run up to and aftermath of the war in Iraq.Introduction; 1. Jews and the making of the cosmopolitan culture; 2. The premature Jewish Neoconservatives; 3. Forgotten Jewish godfathers; 4. The Liberal civil war; 5. The modernization of American conservatism; 6. The Liberal meltdown; 7. The rise of the Neoconservatives; 8. Neoconservatives and the Reagan revolution; 9. Nicaragua: the cold war comes to this hemisphere; 10. Irving Kristol and a new vision of capitalism; 11. The Neoconservative assault on the counterculture; 12. Jews and the Christian right; 13. Epilogue. His book is a useful introduction to its history. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY It is an important and elegant history of how Jewish intellectuals have shaped conservative politics. Washington Examiner, Gregory L. Schneider, Emporia State University ...a first-rl)