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

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Copyright: 1/17/2010

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

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Taking Over	p. 9
Podhoretz: The Early Years	p. 9
Arriving	p. 13
Coming Apart	p. 17
Editor-in-Chief	p. 21
An Oedipal Struggle	p. 23
Taking Risks	p. 28
Softening the Hardness	p. 30
De-Judaizement	p. 32
"Kosher Baloney"	p. 34
Editorial Freedom	p. 41
Norman the Conqueror	p. 43
The Revised Standard Version	p. 49
"Doing ... Violence to the Truth"	p. 52
Not So Radical	p. 53
America the Beautiful	p. 57
Anti-Liberal Racism	p. 60
Hardening the Softness	p. 67
Incipient Conservatism	p. 69
Zionization and the 614th Commandment	p. 71
Liberal Anti-Communism Revisited	p. 75
Blacks and Jews	p. 77
Making It	p. 81
Climax	p. 84
Kulturkampf	p. 86
War	p. 93
Podhoretz Returns	p. 93
A Declaration of War	p. 94
On the Offensive	p. 96
Standing His Ground	p. 102
"La grande peur juive"	p. 106
"Literary Onanism"	p. 109
"Orchestrated 'Lynchings'"	p. 113
Nixonism vs. McGovernism	p. 116
Political Onanism	p. 119
Neoconservalism	p. 121
Present Tense	p. 124
Casualties	p. 126
Resurrection	p. 133
Resurrecting the Cold War	p. 133
Reviving McCarthy	p. 140
Inside the UN	p. 145
Frozen Out	p. 146
Double Standards	p. 149
Ardent Zionism	p. 151
A "Two-Bit Little Homophobic Bigot"	p. 155
Insanity or Maturity?	p. 159
Empire	p. 165
Get Carter	p. 165
Bliss	p. 169
The Norman Invasion	p. 170
"Podhoretz as Dr. Strangelove!"	p. 173
Abusing Human Rights	p. 176
A Shtetl Mentality	p. 178
Tireless Fanaticism	p. 186
Neo-Puritan Traditionalism	p. 187
"A Farewell to Civil Rights"	p. 189
Traditional Intellectuals	p. 193
Decline	p. 199
Betrayal	p. 199
Despair	p. 202
"Neanderthal[s] in Drag"	p. 204
Ideologue of Zionism	p. 207
A False Prophet of Particularism	p. 210
"All the Rest is Commentary"	p. 215
Twisted Thinking	p. 218
Confusion	p. 222
The Conservative Crack-Up	p. 228
Gloominess	p. 231
Fall	p. 240
Intellectual Sacrifice	p. 240
The Gospel of American Conservatism	p. 243
The Wrong Side of History	p. 246
Identity Crisis	p. 254
The Culture Wars	p. 257
Social Darwinist Laissez-Faire Racism	p. 261
Biblical Morality	p. 262
Entering the Fever Swamps	p. 264
Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?	p. 268
"Saddam-is-Hitler"	p. 269
"Jimmy Clinton"	p. 275
A Hero at a Safe Distance	p. 276
A "Counterrevolution" of the Right?	p. 280
After the Fall	p. 289
The Death of Neoconservatism	p. 289
Sickness	p. 291
Podhoretz's Protégé	p. 298
Reviving Reagan	p. 300
Life After Death?	p. 301
Podhoretz Returns	p. 304
Mere Posturing	p. 306
Myth-Making	p. 308
Conclusion	p. 317
Bibliography	p. 324
Index	p. 353
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