Regnery Screws Up: Publishes Non-Neocon volume.

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(Caveat: links to Antiwar.com, ultimately a Pat Buchanan entity, but it's still a good read, if you filter out the conservative BS.)

'Politically Incorrect' History Has Neocons Steamed

by Justin Raimondo

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I won't spend much time on Adam Cohen's editorial comment in the New York Times, except to say that his pairing of the Woods book with Michelle Malkin's horrific In Defense of Internment is a drive-by smear that stupidly puts Woods in the same camp with a policy – the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II – that I know Woods abhors, and which he implicitly condemns in the book. There is a curious nitpicking quality to the Times piece, in which the author drags in all sorts of tangential items – e.g., the Bushian invocation of FDR in support of his Social Security "reform" plan – that have nothing whatsoever to do with Woods' book or his actual views. Cohen clearly doesn't know what to make of what he calls Woods' "revisionism." The "Old Right" view of American history – that is, the view held by conservatives in this country from the late 1930s up until around the mid-1960s – has been shut out of the national dialogue for so long that it's enough to befuddle and even disorient an editorial writer for the New York Times, who only knows about prefixed "conservatism" of the sort offered up in the pages of Commentary and the Weekly Standard.

Speaking of the latter, the boys over at Bill Kristol's flagship journal of "big government conservatism" and Empire are certainly all too familiar with the Old Right, their ancient enemy, and are less shocked than positively outraged that Woods and all he represents have dared to make the New York Times bestseller list. That's where Max Boot saw mention of the Politically Incorrect Guide, noting that the Times described the book as "a neocon retelling of American history."

Say, what?

If the neocons were going to issue their own retelling of American history, then surely Boot would know about it. To the clueless New York Times, which wouldn't know a neocon from a paleocon from a red-breasted boobybird, all conservatives look alike: but Boot knows better. He decides to check it out – and it doesn't make him happy.

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