The essential neoconservative reader
By: edited by Mark Gerson ; foreword by James Q. Wilson.
Contributors: Gerson, Mark.
Publisher: Addison Wesley Pub. Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Conservatism -- United States.
Description: The Essential Neoconservative Reader captures the drama and historical importance of neoconservatism's rise from 1965 to the present, by collecting influential essays by its most noted figures--among them Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Nathan Glazer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and James Q. Wilson. The word "neoconservative" was first used as a term of derision for disgruntled ex-liberals of the 1960s. Perhaps because of this, there has never been a central credo or organization unifying neoconservatism as a movement. With this collection, however, neoconservatism is cast in a new light, portrayed as a comprehensive outlook on economics, politics, society, and culture linked by common principles and a distinctive vision.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.