| Description |
328 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Neoconservatives and their critics : an introduction / Irwin Stelzer -- The neoconservative persuasion / Irving Kristol -- The neocon cabal and other fantasies / David Brooks -- Myths about neoconservatism / Max Boot -- National interest and global responsibility / William Kristol and Robert Kagan -- Postscript - June 04 / William Kristol -- The president's national security strategy / Condoleezza Rice -- New threats for old / Margaret Thatcher -- Doctrine of the international community / Tony Blair -- Beyond the axis of evil : additional threats from weapons of mass destruction / John R. Bolton -- The slow undoing : the assault on, and underestimation of, nationality / George F. Will -- A conservative welfare state / Irving Kristol -- Broken windows : the police and neighborhood safety / James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling -- Pornography, obscenity, and the case for censorship / Irving Kristol -- The dread deficit / Robert L. Bartley -- Neoconservative economic policy : virtues and vices / Irwin Stelzer -- Philosophic roots, the role of Leo Strauss, and the war in Iraq / Kenneth R. Weinstein -- Conservatives and neoconservatives / Adam Wolfson -- Neoconservatism as a response to the counter-culture / Jeane Kirkpatrick -- The neoconservative cabal / Joshua Muravchik -- Neoconservatives and the court of public opinion in America / Karlyn Bowman -- The very British roots of neoconservatism and its lessons for British conservatives / Michael Gove -- The prospect for neoconservatism in Germany / Jeffrey Gedmin -- Neoconservatism in Europe : a view from Portugal / Joao Carlos Espada |
| Summary |
"The Neocon Reader provides a collection of the ideas that are exerting enormous influence on American foreign and defense policy, and serves as an important reminder of how a loose-knit band of intellectuals and politicians thought, wrote, and preached their way into the halls of power."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Also published in London under title: Neoconservatism, 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- United States.
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Conservatism.
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| Author |
Stelzer, Irwin M.
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| LC no. |
2004054063 |
| ISBN |
0802141935 |
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