3. Re: "feckless philanderings". Might be worth reading the biographies of George Kennan & FDR, or novels of John Updike & John Cheever.
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4. Epstein also thinks that in the days of WASP domination there were no "greedy pigs" on Wall Street. I'm speechless.
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5. Some have expressed surprise that someone named "Joseph Esptein" could be nostalgic for WASP elite. but there is a hidden logic here.
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7. 1st generation of neo-cons were Jewish & Catholic in 1950/1960s who welcomed loosening of WASP elite to people like them.
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8. Many early neo-cons were cultural Anglophiles (Kristol/Himmelfarb, Podhoretz at Cambridge, Neuhaus)
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9. For proto-neo-cons in early 1960s, next logical step of history is that they'd be admitted into the WASP elite.
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10. Instead, with Vietnam WASP elite suffered both attacks from outside and inner crisis of confidence.
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11. Neo-cons were furious at WASP elite for it's alleged "failure of nerve" and development of inner doubts. Dean Rusk particularly hated.
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12. Envy and anger at an elite that is no more is very much a part of the emotional gestalt of neo-conservatism.
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13. All of this might seem odd since the neo-cons are themselves now part of the American elite.
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14. But I think neo-con anger comes from sense that they'll never have the full authority, confidence & cultural legitimacy of old elite.
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15. Perry Anderson's essay on American foreign policy in latest New Left Review is a good corrective to anyone nostalgic for WASP elite.
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16. Among other things, Anderson is devastating in pricking the inflated reputation of George Kennan.
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