Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine The Rise and Fall of the Neocons
by Abrams, NathanFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-01-17
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
A fascinating new study of the neoconservative momevent's leading thinker and magazine: Norman Podhoretz and Commentary.
Author Biography
Dr. Nathan Abrams is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University, UK. He is the author of 3 books and many journal articles.
Table of Contents
| 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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