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Article: Flight of the neocons: from liberal hawks to "National Greatness" conservatives.(Book review)
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- May 1, 2008
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They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, by Jacob Heilbrunn, New York: Doubleday, 336 pages, $26
IN 1996 Norman Podhoretz, exfriend of the left and high priest of neoconservatism, wrote an elegiac essay in Commentary about the movement he had helped to found. Neoconservatism was dead, he argued, but not of intellectual exhaustion or mass ideological defection. It was a victim of its own success. What had previously been a movement of political outsiders--former socialists ambling through "the middle of their journey" in Lionel Trilling's phrasing--was now well represented in the corridors of power: on Capitol Hill, in influential think tanks, on the ...