Jews and the making of the cosmopolitan culture -- The premature Jewish neoconservatives -- Forgotten Jewish godfathers -- The liberal Civil War -- The modernization of American conservatism -- The liberal meltdown -- The rise of the neoconservatives -- Neoconservatives and the Reagan revolution -- Nicaragua : the Cold War comes to this hemisphere -- Irving Kristol and a new vision of capitalism -- The neo conservative assault on the counterculture -- Jews and the Christian Right.