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The Neoconservatives
Peter Steinfels
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The Origins of a Movement: With a New Foreword, From Dissent to Political Power
出版Simon and Schuster, 2013-11-19
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
ISBN14767288369781476728834
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=P20TAgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In 1979, Peter Steinfels identified a new movement and predicted it would be the decade’s most enduring legacy to American politics. In a new Introduction he describes its evolution from a reaction to Sixties' social change into an entrenched political force promoting an assertive, even belligerent, foreign policy.

More than three decades ago, in The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels described a nascent movement, predicting that it would be the sixties’ “most enduring legacy to American politics.” Now, in a new foreword to that portrait, he traces neoconservatism’s fateful transformation. What was a movement of dissenting intellectuals creating a new, modern kind of conservatism became a phalanx of political insiders urging the nation to flex its muscles overseas.

The Neoconservatives describes the founders of the movement, disenchanted liberals recoiling from the turmoil of the sixties, a decline in authority, and a loss of tough-minded leadership at home and abroad. Written contemporaneously to the birth of a movement that would profoundly mark American history, The Neoconservatives holds clues, Stein­fels argues, to how and why neoconservatism swerved from its original promise even as it successfully implanted itself as an influential and aggressive element in our politics. This is a landmark book, “an important contribution to understanding the influence of ideas on American politics” (Congress Monthly).