| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. By Murray Friedman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. vi, 303 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-521-83656-5.)
This is a well-researched, timely book delving into the history of "neoconservatives" and their impact on U.S. policy and culture. Murray Friedman argues that Jewish intellectuals played an important role in the emergence of neoconservatism, which has in turn impacted American conservatism as a whole. Thinkers such as Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz have played pivotal roles in shaping a more conservative direction for American domestic and foreign policy since the 1960s. How did this happen?	1
Someone once remarked that a neoconservative was a liberal "mugged by reality." Friedman does not greatly depart from this thesis, but he adds some crucial elements to it. He tells the familiar story of how many future neoconservatives began as members of the New York "cosmopolitan" Left in the 1930s and 1940s. But Friedman also stresses that this is not the sum total of the movement's origins—also important were the surprising (and heretofore often ignored) numbers of Jewish conservatives active before and immediately after World War II. There were libertarians such as Ayn Rand and Frank Chodorov and members of the National Review magazine circle such as Frank Meyer and Will Herberg. Some of the free-marketeers at the University of Chicago were Jewish intellectuals.	. . .

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