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Title: Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol, Arving Kristol ISBN: 1-56663-228-5 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.90 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Another example of confused conservatives
Comment: The author is a fairly adequate writer. He packs alot of ideas into a fairly compact space. He is entertaining, and attempts to lure the reader into his mindset rather than writing a book on pure political philosophy which can get dry at times. I give this book 4 stars in that respect. However, 4 stars shall not be my offical rating. I feel the need to counterbalance his fair writing skills with a negative rating because I think the writer is just anothr example of an ultra-confused modern quasi-conservative (aka a "new" conservative, aka a left winger masquarading as a conservative).
If you want REAL conservatism, Old-Conservatism read the works of Ludwig Von Mises and Murray Rothbard (go to the mises.org website where you will learn the very definition of good quality scholarship in writing). Also read the works of Justin Raimondo whos book "Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement" you will find more beneficial. Also read Raimandos book "Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard", or even "The Conservative Mind" for classic essays on Old Conservatism before it became poisoned by the post New Deal socialists turned quasi-conservatives. Furthermore, this book reaks of religious influence straight from the beginning. Religion has nothing whatsoeverto do with political conservatism in the least; I give this book zero stars for that portion, attempting to mislead the reader with his anti-conservative agenda. The book is filled with entire chapters that have nothing to do with Old-Conservatism based on cherishing economic property rights. The book is filled with new-conservatism, shove it down your throats quasi-morality lessons. True conservatism stems largely from the works of John Locke's 17th Century "Second Treatise on Government" upon which he lays the foundation for economic property rights. The thesis which has served Old-conservatives well for 300 years is simple. A mans physical property (land and such) can never be secure until a man is secure in his persons. "Self-ownership"; the right to possess, sell, trade, or buy "ideas" or "thoughts" is the premise of all true conservatism. Mans "thoughts and ideas" are his property just the same as a piece of land. Thats why we have copyrights and trademarks! Yet, modern quasi-conservatives, instigated by phonies such as this author, want to purvey their "new conservative" agenda by controlling mans ideas and thoughts through law (i.e. anti-porno laws, anti-seditious speech laws, anti-whatever-else-is-immoral-today type of laws)... and if a man cannot control his own body and do with it what he will, then he'll never be secure in his physical property,... which is why we have rampant emminant domain laws which take away peoples houses and give them to corporations so they can build your local strip-malls, not to mention "property seizure" laws which dump on peoples Constitutional rights.
This book IS very interesting, and well written... but it's also a good example of where true conservatism went wrong, and in fact I recommend that every Old-Conservative read this book to make sure they don't make the same mistakes as promoted in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A life in thought
Comment: This book is a breathtaking collection of social thought--sober, lucid, even profound--on the possibilities and dangers of liberal society.
Rating: 5
Summary: A corrective
Comment: As the author of the review below is clearly a madman, a corrective is in order. Kristol thinks clearly, writes elegantly, and maintains an almost courtly good-humor and reserve.
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Title: The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to Culture Wars by Mark Gerson ISBN: 1568331002 Publisher: Madison Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George H. Nash ISBN: 188292620X Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Inst Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy by Robert Kagan, William Kristol ISBN: 1893554163 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss ISBN: 0226776948 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.29 |
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Title: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk ISBN: 0895261715 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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