The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars

by Mark Gerson

Book Overview

A revealing, intellectual, and social portrait of today's most influential political movement. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568330545
• ISBN13: 9781568330549
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Madison Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Communism Bad, Gerson Good

Communism is bad. Any movement that begins there is headed in the right direction. Since it began with that simple proposition a few decades back, the neoconservative movement has had more influence on the political landscape than most of us realize. Many conservatives of differing sorts may think of the neoconservatives as a small cadre of northeastern Jewish intellectuals irrelevant to other forms conservatism, or may not think of them at all, but will learn when reading Mark Gerson's book just how much other brands of conservatism should credit the neocons for shaping their theories and paving the way for the resurgence of genuine conservatism in America. Mark Gerson set out to write a book about great thinkers like Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, and in doing so has put his name on a level with theirs.

The Neoconservative Vision is now my vision.

Mark Gerson has illuminated an intellectual movement that carries the promise of freedom from the worn out structures of both traditional liberalism and conservatism. By capturing the essence of neoconservatism in a clearly written volume, he has done a great service to American political thought.