Springtime for Neocons

• Published in: The National interest Vol. 134; no. 134; pp. 5 - 10
• Main Author: Heilbrunn, Jacob
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Center for the National Interest 01.11.2014; The National Interest, Inc; The National Interest Inc
• Subjects: American history; Cheney, Dick; Civil wars; Foreign policy; Hirsh, Michael; Historians; Hofstadter, Richard; Iraq War-2003; Legislative Bodies; Liberalism; National interest; National interests; Neoconservatism; New York; Obama, Barack; Peace; Peacetime; Political Parties; Presidents; Public Relations; Republicanism; The Realist; Total war; Vice Presidents; Vietnam; Vietnam War; War; War conflict; Warfare; Works; World wars; United States; United States > US; Vietnam

In May 1968, Richard Hofstadter published an essay about the Vietnam War in the New York Times Magazine. It was called "Uncle Sam Has Cried 'Uncle!' Before." What Hofstadter did not anticipate, however, is that perhaps the most fervent response to defeat in Vietnam would come fro...