Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine : The Rise and Fall of the Neocons.

A fascinating new study of the neoconservative momevent's leading thinker and magazine: Norman Podhoretz and Commentary.

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Author / Creator: Abrams, Nathan.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2012.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Taking Over -- Podhoretz: The Early Years -- Arriving -- Coming Apart -- Editor-in-Chief -- An Oedipal Struggle -- Taking Risks -- Softening the Hardness -- De-Judaizement -- "Kosher Baloney" -- Editorial Freedom -- Norman the Conqueror -- 2. The Revised Standard Version -- "Doing . . . Violence to the Truth" -- Not So Radical -- America the Beautiful -- Anti-Liberal Racism -- Hardening the Softness -- Incipient Conservatism -- Zionization and the 614th Commandment -- Liberal Anti-Communism Revisited -- Blacks and Jews -- Making It -- Climax -- Kulturkampf -- 3. War -- Podhoretz Returns -- A Declaration of War -- On the Offensive -- Standing His Ground -- "La grande peur juive" -- "Literary Onanism" -- "Orchestrated 'Lynchings'" -- Nixonism vs. McGovernism -- Political Onanism -- Neoconservatism -- Present Tense -- Casualties -- 4. Resurrection -- Resurrecting the Cold War -- Reviving McCarthy -- Inside the UN -- Frozen Out -- Double Standards -- Ardent Zionism -- A "Two-Bit Little Homophobic Bigot" -- Insanity or Maturity? -- 5. Empire -- Get Carter -- Bliss -- The Norman Invasion -- "Podhoretz as Dr. Strangelove!" -- Abusing Human Rights -- A Shtetl Mentality -- Tireless Fanaticism -- Neo-Puritan Traditionalism -- "A Farewell to Civil Rights" -- Traditional Intellectuals -- 6. Decline -- Betrayal -- Despair -- "Neanderthal[s] in Drag" -- Ideologue of Zionism -- A False Prophet of Particularism -- "All the Rest is Commentary" -- Twisted Thinking -- Confusion -- The Conservative Crack-Up -- Gloominess -- 7. Fall -- Intellectual Sacrifice -- The Gospel of American Conservatism -- The Wrong Side of History -- Identity Crisis -- The Culture Wars -- Social Darwinist Laissez-Faire Racism -- Biblical Morality -- Entering the Fever Swamps -- Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?. 
505 8 |a "Saddam-is-Hitler" -- "Jimmy Clinton" -- A Hero at a Safe Distance -- A "Counterrevolution" of the Right? -- 8. After the Fall -- The Death of Neoconservatism -- Sickness -- Podhoretz's Protégé -- Reviving Reagan -- Life After Death? -- Podhoretz Returns -- Mere Posturing -- Myth-Making -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. 
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