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The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars
The Neoconservative Vision From the Cold War to the Culture Wars Author:Mark Gerson This work offers a revealing intellectual and social portrait of the neoconservative political movement. In the 1950s those whom we now call the neoconservatives emerged as a group of liberal New York intellectuals staunchly opposed to communism and its apologists. Their growing belief in the moral and political bankruptcy of America... more »n liberalism and opposition to the counterculture transformed the movement into a new conservatism based on a confidence in America and the rediscovery of traditional virtues and religious values.
In this book author Mark Gerson demonstrates how neoconservative ideas have had consequences -- especially the contemporary Republican revolution. With grace, clarity, and precision, he explains the philosophical foundations and cultural implications of neoconservative positions on issues including the welfare state, affirmative action, multiculturalism, abortion, environmentalism, foreign policy, religion in public life, and more. In tracing and explaining the neoconservative ideas which have done so much to frame political debate in this country, Gerson reveals the intellectual basis of the conservative renaissance in and out of Congress.« less