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The Neoconservatives: The Origins of a Movement

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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter SteinfelsSeries:Bestselling Political NonfictionPublish date:2013-11-19Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781476728834ISBN-10:1476728836UPC:9781476728834Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, United States, History & TheoryBook Topic:Conservatism & Liberalism, 20th CenturySize:8.45 x 5.50 x 1.02 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCZTABJPRS
In 1979, Peter Steinfels identified a new movement and predicted it would be the decade's most enduring legacy to American politics. In a new Introduction he describes its evolution from a reaction to Sixties' social change into an entrenched political force promoting an assertive, even belligerent, foreign policy.

More than three decades ago, in The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels described a nascent movement, predicting that it would be the sixties' "most enduring legacy to American politics." Now, in a new foreword to that portrait, he traces neoconservatism's fateful transformation. What was a movement of dissenting intellectuals creating a new, modern kind of conservatism became a phalanx of political insiders urging the nation to flex its muscles overseas.

The Neoconservatives describes the founders of the movement, disenchanted liberals recoiling from the turmoil of the sixties, a decline in authority, and a loss of tough-minded leadership at home and abroad. Written contemporaneously to the birth of a movement that would profoundly mark American history, The Neoconservatives holds clues, Stein-fels argues, to how and why neoconservatism swerved from its original promise even as it successfully implanted itself as an influential and aggressive element in our politics. This is a landmark book, "an important contribution to understanding the influence of ideas on American politics" (Congress Monthly).
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781476728834ISBN-10:1476728836UPC:9781476728834Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, United States, History & TheoryBook Topic:Conservatism & Liberalism, 20th CenturySize:8.45 x 5.50 x 1.02 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCZTABJPRS
Steinfels, Peter: - Peter Steinfels, former co-director of the Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture, is a university professor at Fordham. He was religion columnist for The New York Times and editor of Commonweal. Steinfels is the author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America (Simon & Schuster, 2003). He lives in New York City.
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