Reply #142: The book I read... [View All]

[suegeo]

Unless I've got my books confused (I read many books!), the book that I took the "neo-con hotbed at Columbia University" information from is:

The rise of neoconservatism : intellectuals and foreign affairs, 1945-1994 by John Ehrman. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995. Description xii, 241 p. ; 22 cm.

This book describes prominent neo-cons like Jeane Kirkpatrick (the woman who ate Nicaragua for lunch) and Elliott Abrams. The book also describes how Daniel Patrick Monyinhan (sp?) was in the movement, but eventually went back to his Democratic roots because other neo-cons were just crazed about communism, making it a bigger threat than it was. When the lunatic at the NYT (David Brooks??) claims that the con=conservative and neo=jew, he SIMPLY DOESN'T KNOW HISTORY. Jackass, know-nothing, so-called journalist.

The book also describes how the current neo-cons have their roots in "anti-communist liberalism", but then they went completely berserk-o and are now like a charging elephant, intent on stamping out democracy.

They got riled up back in the 1960s, because some African-American students at Columbia started fighting for their rights (THE GALL!)

Anyway, the book was a pretty good read...