Herman Wouk & Barney Greenwald -- The First Neo-Conservative

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Herman Wouk & Barney Greenwald -- The First Neo-Conservative

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Essential Reading.

Irving Kristol, who is also the father of Bill Kristol, is frequently
given credit as the first true Neo-Conservative.

However, this is a quite impressive advocacy for another candidate -- a
Stalwart and a Real American.

DSH
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New Politics, Vol. X, No. 3

"The First Neoconservative"

"Herman Wouk, the Americanization of the Holocaust, and the Rise of
Neoconservatism"

Joel Brodkin

"Herman Wouk's best-selling novels (made into films and TV mini-series)
such as The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978) brought
an awareness of the Holocaust to tens of millions of Americans, making
it seem an episode in U.S. history and a part of American historical
experience. Wouk's work put a U.S. spin on the Nazi Holocaust,
emphasizing the righteousness of U.S. military and international power
and the sanctity of American institutions. In addition, in The Caine
Mutiny (1951), Wouk created the first American neoconservative hero."...

"To defend Maryk at his court martial, the Navy appoints Lieutenant
Barney Greenwald, a peacetime lawyer and a wartime combat pilot. In the
novel, Lieutenant Greenwald speaks for Wouk, the author. When Greenwald
first meets Maryk, he is greatly surprised "because he had already
formed a clear picture of the exec: slight, thin, nervous, dark with the
self-satisfied expression of a petty intellectual." Wouk provides a
portrait -- or rather a caricature -- of the leftwing, often Jewish
intellectual. Greenwald further describes the villain: "In fact, he had
pictured Bill Pelham, a loud mouthed Marxist of his college days, in
naval uniform.""

Joel Brodkin

Herman Wouk himself was a graduate of Columbia University, in New York
City. ---- DSH
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