Question: Joseph Bottum wrote about what type of politics, best known for being practiced by adherents from the 1970s through the 2000s?

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Martin Torgoff: Martin Torgoff (born November 29, 1952) is an American journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, and writer, director and producer of television, who has worked extensively in the fields of music and American popular culture.  He is best known for his book "Can’t Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000" (2004) a narrative cultural history of illicit drugs, and for "The Drug Years", the series for VH1 and Sundance that Torgoff wrote and appeared in, which was based on his book.  Over the span of his forty-year career his work has encompassed music, art, film, theater, literature, politics, biography, history, race, sociology, sexuality, and celebrity culture.

Neoconservatism: Neoconservatism (commonly shortened to neocon) is a political movement born in the United States during the 1960s among conservative-leaning Democrats who became disenchanted with the party's foreign policy.  Many of its adherents became politically famous during the Republican presidential administrations of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.  Neoconservatives peaked in influence during the administration of George W. Bush, when they played a major role in promoting and planning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.  Prominent neoconservatives in the George W. Bush administration included Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle and Paul Bremer.  Senior officials Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, while not identifying as neoconservatives, listened closely to neoconservative advisers regarding foreign policy, especially the defense of Israel and the promotion of American influence in the Middle East.

Joseph LaPalombara: Joseph LaPalombara (born May 18, 1925) is the Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Management, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Comparative Research at Yale University.  He is best known for his contributions to the fields of comparative politics, comparative public administration, political development, Italian politics and the organization and behavior of international firms.  He served as chair of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies for five years, and as Chair of its Department of Political Science for two three-year terms.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the Twentieth Century Fund, the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Program.  He has been awarded the Medals of Honor by the Presidency of the Italian Republic and by the Italian Constitutional Court.  He is a Knight-Commander in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Benjamin Polk: Benjamin Kauffman Polk (18 May 1916 – 23 April 2001) was an American designer and architect, best known for his work in India and Nepal.  Polk was raised by his parents, Harry Herndon Polk (30 November 1875 – 28 August 1949) and Alice Kauffman (12 August 1878 – 30 July 1973) in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa.  He practiced architecture in San Francisco from 1948-1952, where he met his future wife and companion, Emily Despain (née Isaacs ).  The couple moved to India in 1952, where they would remain until September 1963.  Polk designed both in the public and private sector.  In 1955 he formed an association with another expatriate American architect, Joseph Allen Stein, later adding civil engineer Binoy K. Chatterjee, to form the firm of Stein, Chatterjee and Polk.  Polk and Chatterjee left the firm in 1961, moving their new office to Calcutta named Chatterjee and Polk.  Notable among his work include the Times of India main building, Buddhist Tripitaka Library in Rangoon, the Royal Palace for His Majesty the King of Nepal, Kathmandu, and the beautiful Jallianwala Bagh Memorial in Amritsar.  In all these projects he was assisted by eminent Indian architect Suraj P Subherwal.  Suraj P. Subherwal, later, won a National Architectural Competition to become Architect of XXXVIII International Eucharistic Congress held at Bombay in December 1964 and attended by Pope Paul VI.  Polk returned to the United States in 1968, where he took up teaching architecture at the California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California.  He was the author of several books, primarily concerning architecture, and most notably "Buddhist Monastic Architecture in Sri Lanka" and "The India Notebook," which he wrote with his wife.  He died due to natural causes in 2001.

Tom Rapp: Thomas Dale "Tom" Rapp (born March 8, 1947) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of Pearls Before Swine, the psychedelic folk rock group of the 1960s and 1970s.  More recently he has practiced as a lawyer.

Delores S. Williams: Delores S. Williams is a theologian notable for her formative role in the development of womanist theology and best known for her book "Sisters in the Wilderness".  Her writings over the years have discussed the role intersecting oppressions of race, gender, and class have played in the situation of black women.  As opposed to feminist theology as it was predominately practiced by white women and black theology as predominately practiced by black men, Williams argues that black women's oppression deepens the analysis of oppression in theology.  In "Sisters in the Wilderness," Williams' primarily develops a rereading of the biblical figure, Hagar, to illuminate the importance of issues of reproduction and surrogacy in black women's oppression.  According to Aaron McEmrys, "Williams offers a theological response to the defilement of black women... Womanism is an approach to ethics, theology and life rooted in the experiences of African-American women".  The term "Womanism" was coined by a contemporary of Williams, Alice Walker, used in her 1979 short story "Coming Apart" and again in her 1983 essay collection "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens".  Williams wrote the eighth chapter of "Transforming the Faiths of our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion" (2004), edited by Ann Braude.

Pete Brewton: Pete Brewton teaches journalism and law at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.  Brewton is best known for an investigative journalism series he wrote for the "Houston Post" that were the basis of a book, "The Mafia, CIA and George Bush."  He is an award-winning journalist with 15 years reporting experience at the "Houston Chronicle" and the "Houston Post".  He practiced law in Houston for five years.

Sara Soskolne: Sara Soskolne (born 1970) is a Canadian type designer best known for her work at Hoefler & Frere-Jones (H&FJ) type foundry on typefaces such as Gotham.  After ten years working in graphic design in Toronto, Soskolne attended the University of Reading where she received her MA in 2003.  She has taught type design at Yale School of Art, the Book Arts Institute at Wells College, and New York’s School of Visual Arts and the Cooper Type Certificate Program.  Soskolne has written about the evolution of sans-serif lower case types in the 19th century.

Joseph Bottum (author): Joseph Bottum (often nicknamed “Jody,” born April 30, 1959) is an American author, best known for his writings about literature, American religion, and neoconservative politics.  Noting references to his poems, short stories, scholarly work, literary criticism, and many other forms of public commentary, reviewer Mary Eberstadt wrote in National Review in 2014 that “his name would be mandatory on any objective short list of public intellectuals” in America.  Coverage of his work includes profiles in the "New York Times", "South Dakota Magazine", and the "Washington Times".  Bottum and Dakota State University announced in May of 2017, that he will be taking a position at the University in Madison, South Dakota.

R. T. Claridge: Captain Richard Tappin Claridge, FSA (c. 1797/1799 –1857), was a prominent asphalt contractor and captain in the Middlesex Militia, who became best known for his prominent promotion of hydropathy, now known as hydrotherapy, in the 1840s.  It was also known as the "Cold Water system" or "Cold Water cure".  Claridge is widely credited with introducing the methods of Vincent Priessnitz to England, thus initiating the populist movement of the time.  Indeed, much of what is popularly known about Priessnitz in the English-speaking world comes from two seminal publications.  Firstly, Claridge's "Hydropathy; or The Cold Water Cure, as practiced by Vincent Priessnitz..." (1842 & 1843).  Secondly, Richard Metcalfe's "Life of Vincent Priessnitz" (1898), with Metcalfe himself drawing upon Claridge, although Metcalfe also later wrote a historical overview and added more about Claridge and his role in the promotion of hydropathy.

Supporting paragraphs: Joseph Bottum (author) Neoconservatism
Answer: Neoconservatism