| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

America's Political Class under Fire: The Twentieth Century's Great Culture War. By David A. Horowitz. (New York: Routledge, 2003. xii, 290 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN 0-415-94690-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-415-94691-3.)
In America's Political Class under Fire, David A. Horowitz surveys eighty years of U.S. political and cultural debate from the perspective of conflicts between everyday people and what he calls the guardian class—a group whose membership overlaps with Milovan Djilas's The New Class (1957), famously debated among the likes of Alvin Gouldner, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, Jean-Christophe Agnew, and the late Christopher Lasch.	1
Horowitz continues along the path he first mapped out in his Beyond Left and Right (1997) in which he seems to examine old debates with a fresh eye for new patterns, deliberately, as he puts it, attempting to distance himself "from prevailing assumptions about twentieth-century political culture by focusing on Americans who oppose all concentrations of power." In this work, Horowitz does much the same by focusing on the perceived power of policy intellectuals and the implications of the attacks they have traditionally inspired among populist-minded community and religious leaders, along with (mostly) conservative politicians.	. . .

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