| Description |
xvii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
My Negro problem. and ours / Norman Podhoretz -- The Negro family : the case for national action / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- The campus crucible : student politics and the university / Nathan Glazer -- A letter to the young (and to their parents) (February 1975) / Midge Decter -- Government and the people / Aaron Wildavsky -- Speech before the United Nations in response to "Zionism is racism" / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- "Why virtue loses all her loveliness": some reflections on capitalism and "the free society" / Irving Kristol -- From The spirit of democratic capitalism / Michael Novak -- Moral sources of capitalism / George Gilder -- Dictatorships and double standards / Jeane Kirkpatrick -- The delegitimation of Israel / Ruth Wisse -- Human nature and social reform / Irving Kristol -- From To empower people : the role of mediating structures in public policy / Richard John Neuhaus & Peter Berger -- Affirmative action : a worldwide disaster / Thomas Sowell -- A conservative welfare state / Irving Kristol -- The rediscovery of character : private virtue and public policy / James Q. Wilson -- Pornography, obscenity, and the case for censorship / Irving Kristol -- Broken windows : the police and neighborhood safety / James Q. Wilson & George L. Kelling -- Regarding daughters and sisters : The rape of Dinah / Leon R. Kass -- Defining deviancy down / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- Defining deviancy up / Charles Krauthammer -- A new order of religious freedom / Richard John Neuhaus -- Christian conviction and democratic etiquette / George Weigel -- A de-moralized society : the British/American experience / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- The politics of liberty, the sociology of virtue / William Kristol. |
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My Negro problem.. and ours / Norman Podhoretz -- The Negro family : the case for national action / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- The campus crucible : student politics and the university / Nathan Glazer -- A letter to the young (and to their parents) (February 1975) / Midge Decter -- Government and the people / Aaron Wildavsky -- Speech before the United Nations in response to "Zionism is racism" / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- "Why virtue loses all her loveliness": some reflections on capitalism and "the free society" / Irving Kristol -- From The spirit of democratic capitalism / Michael Novak -- Moral sources of capitalism / George Gilder -- Dictatorships and double standards / Jeane Kirkpatrick -- The delegitimation of Israel / Ruth Wisse -- Human nature and social reform / Irving Kristol -- From To empower people : the role of mediating structures in public policy / Richard John Neuhaus & Peter Berger -- Affirmative action : a worldwide disaster / Thomas Sowell -- A conservative welfare state / Irving Kristol -- The rediscovery of character : private virtue and public policy / James Q. Wilson -- Pornography, obscenity, and the case for censorship / Irving Kristol -- Broken windows : the police and neighborhood safety / James Q. Wilson & George L. Kelling -- Regarding daughters and sisters : The rape of Dinah / Leon R. Kass -- Defining deviancy down / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- Defining deviancy up / Charles Krauthammer -- A new order of religious freedom / Richard John Neuhaus -- Christian conviction and democratic etiquette / George Weigel -- A de-moralized society : the British/American experience / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- The politics of liberty, the sociology of virtue / William Kristol. |
| Summary |
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. |
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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. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. Joseph M. Gowaskie |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- United States.
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Conservatism. |
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United States. |
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United States.
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| Added Author |
Gerson, Mark.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Essential neoconservative reader. Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley Pub. Co., c1996 (OCoLC)631143943 |
| ISBN |
0201479680 |
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9780201479683 |
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