The Essential Neoconservative Reader

The Essential Neoconservative Reader, edited by Mark Gerson with a foreword by James Q. Wilson, lives up to its promise as ""the definitive collection of neoconservative thought."" Opening with Norman Podhoretz's controversial, legendary ""My Negro Problem--and Ours,"" published in Commentary in 1963, the book includes Irving Kristol's ""Human Nature and Social Reform"" (Wall Street Journal, 1978), James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling's ""Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety"" (Atlantic, 1982), along with pieces by Michael Novak, Nathan Glazer, Thomas Sowell et al. (Addison-Wesley, $27.50 480p ISBN 0-201-47968-0)