{"product_id":"the-neoconservative-mind-politics-culture-and-the-war-of-ideology-9781566390194","title":"The Neoconservative Mind: Politics  Culture  and the War of Ideology","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the past generation  neoconservatism has been the most powerful intellectual movement in American politics. Focusing on four of its most influential theoristsIrving Kristol  Norman Podhoretz  Michael Novak  and Peter BergerGary Dorrien presents a sweeping analysis of neoconservatisms history  ideology  and future prospects. He argues that it has the potential to become Americas first genuine conservative intellectual tradition. Interviews with all the principal figures as well as with Michael Harrington and other opponents yield a rich and colorful portrayal of the figures and the publications that have shaped this ideological force. Neoconservatism grew out of the Old Left and retains the marks of its origins in the factional New York Intellectual debates of the 1930s. Dorrien traces the multiple strands that contributed to the new movement: former Trotskyites  trade unionists  and right-wing social democrats who opposed the countercultural movements of the 1960s  were disillusioned with the Great Society  felt alienated from the \"fashionable liberal elite \" and were repulsed by the anti-American sentiments of the Left. They attacked the \"new class \" an amorphous group of non-producing elites that at various times included liberal intellectuals  \"parasitic\" managers  and bureaucrats  social workers and psychologists  the major media  consultants  administrators  and lawyers. Throughout the fascinating intellectual biographies of Kristol  Podhoretz  Novak  and Berger  Dorrien describes the vast array of New York literati and political pundits who are or have been associated with these neoconservative leaders. Naming Commentary  The New Republic  The Public Interest  Orbis  The American Scholar  The New Leader  The American Spectator  and Society  among others which have been established by or which regularly host the writings of prominent neoconservatives  Dorrien demonstrates the substantial influence of the movement. Dorrien characterizes neoconservatism by its militant anticommunist and capitalist economics  and its support of a minimal welfare state  the rule of traditional elites  and the return to traditional cultural values. He describes its different ideological currents  its feud with the traditional Right and the many camps from which its adherents converted. Tracking the movements attainment of political power in the 1980s  he explains how the collapse of communism has fractured neoconservatisms foreign policy consensus  and analyzes the movements subsequently heightened concern with cultural politics. While Dorrien does not aim to refute neoconservatism  he offers a respectful but strongly critical review of its development and examines the contradictions of its appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651913670709,"sku":"ByrdShop_1566390192","price":91.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781566390194.jpg?v=1781844989","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-neoconservative-mind-politics-culture-and-the-war-of-ideology-9781566390194","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}