The Neoconservatives; The Origin of a Movement
New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2013. New Edition. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 25 cm. xxvii, [1]. 354, [2] pages. Inscribed to Cokie Roberts and signed by the author on the first page. Inscription reads: Dear Cokie, A neo edition of an old book on the first neo's. You might find things of interest in the Foreword. Very best wishes, Peter. Includes Foreword to the New Edition: From Dissent to Political Power. Also includes Introduction: The Significance of Neoconservatism; The Road to Neoconservatism; What Neoconservatives Believe; The Neoconservative Style; Irving Kristol, Standard-Bearer; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Professional Politician; Daniel Bell, Theoretician and Moralist; Intellectuals, the Heart of the "New Class'; Equality and Social Policy; Democracy and Expertise; Conclusion: The War for the "New Class; Notes; and Index. Peter F. Steinfels (born 1941) is an American journalist and educator best known for his writings on religious topics. A lifelong Roman Catholic, Steinfels earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and joined the staff of the journal Commonweal in 1964. He served as a visiting professor at Notre Dame in 1994–95 and then as visiting professor at Georgetown University from 1997 to 2001. He has also been a professor at Fordham University and co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture. Steinfels has written several books, including The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics and A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America. In 2003, he was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame, the oldest and most prestigious award for American Catholics. 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, Steinfels 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). Condition: Good.
Keywords: Irving Kristol, Daniel P. Moynihan, Daniel Bell, Democracy, Neoconservatism, Equality, Social Conditions, Civil Rights, Poverty, Racism
ISBN: 9781476728834
[Book #79096]
Price: $75.00