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Struggling for Empire is a unique study of the neoconservative movement's leading thinker and magazine: Norman Podhoretz and Commentary. In this book, Nathan Abrams examines the origins, rise, and fall of neoconservatism and argues that much of what has been said about it in the last six years is the result of willful distortion and exaggeration by both the neocons and their opponents. The main goal of this critical and balanced survey is to dispel misconceptions of what the much widely used and abused term "neocon" actually refers to. Norman Podhoretz (b. 1930) was one of the neocon movement'