The Neoconservatives: The Origins of a Movement: With a New Foreword, From Dissent to Political Power

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In 1979, Peter Steinfels identified a new movement and predicted it would be the decades 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 neoconservatisms 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, Stein#173;fels 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).

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