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	Old Wife's Tale \| Midge Decter
		Decter is a New York writer and editor, and her works have appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic, The National Review, and The New Republic, among others.
		Decter's fighting words a bit more palatable --- or at least somewhat more readable --- we would encourage her to immerse herself in the writings of some of the masters of American conservatism.
		Decter would make an excellent volunteer, and we'd guess that after a few months with people who actually survived this devastation, she would have some interesting tales to bring back to us, some facts about what really went on in that war between the Contras and the Sandinistas.
	www.ralphmag.org /AW/old-wife.html (911 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Midge Decter and the American Way
		Decter argues that by giving children everything they needed and by encouraging them to explore and to question their society's values, parents unwittingly led their children to the radical, alienated position at which they arrived.
		Sociology--as Decter seems to realize when she says in a defense against those who would scoff at her lack of documentation, "This is the inevitable peril for anyone who seeks to discuss the world through the medium of his or her own senses"--requires some kind of evidence to support theories.
		Decter often avoids other issues: that the 60s might have been a time when the government was drafting young men to fight a war many considered immoral, and that throughout that era many people, not only the children of liberals, were questioning the values that have traditionally made up the American way.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=148513 (1386 words)

	Amazon.ca: Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait: Books: Midge Decter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Decter sets out to explain Rumsfeld's sudden fame and to present the man's basic biography (although, as the subtitle states, this work is not a formal biography).
		Decter, though sympathetic toward her subject (as expected from such a well-known neoconservative), doesn't provide much information beyond Rumsfeld's known ascent from 1950s congressional aide to secretary of defense in 1975-77.
		Decter improves when she plays to her strength by analyzing the factors behind Rumsfeld's popularity, which she attributes to a yearning for decisive leadership after the empathic Clinton years.
	www.amazon.ca /Rumsfeld-Personal-Portrait-Midge-Decter/dp/0060561106 (1484 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Midge Decter tells 'an old wife's tale' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Decter is mother to four successful and stable children, and grandmother to 10 who appear to be coming along admirably well.
		Decter, in examining her career — and quite a career it has been — does not go in for name-dropping, the sin of so many memoirs of this order.
		Decter sees the damage being done to men and young boys as a result of the women's movement as being the most nefarious heritage.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24313 (675 words)

	Q&A with Midge Decter on Donald Rumsfeld
		Midge Decter: I certainly and happily plead guilty to the idea behind Maureen Dowd's column, absurd though her general posture is. (I have said that had she known what a great favor she was doing me by telling other Rumsfeld admirers about the book as she did, she would surely never have done it.
		Decter: He was certainly a Cold Warrior, and Cold Warriors were opposed to the policy that later came to be called dÈtente with the Soviet Union.
		Decter: It is not true that pre-9/11 Rumsfeld was on his way out — though there were people in the Pentagon, upset by the prospect of having to undergo the kind of reform of the military he had immediately begun to set in motion, who dreamed that he might be.
	www.nationalreview.com /interrogatory/decter200310300716.asp (1109 words)

	Collected Miscellany - Rumsfeld: A personal portrait by Midge Decter
		Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait by Midge Decter is a rather breezy biography of the current Secretary of State.
		Decter found Rumsfeld's sudden rise to stardom (rated as one of People's sexist men, etc.) surprising and wanted to explore the path that led him to this point.
		Decter notes throughout that a close knit set of friends and colleagues surrounded Rumsfeld even as he frequently moved his family around the world.
	collectedmiscellany.com /archives/000839.php (641 words)

	Two Cheers for Midge
		If a storyline is to be extracted, it goes perhaps like this: Midge Decter, a proudly Jewish and proudly anti-Communist female publicist, married Norman Podhoretz after a largely uneventful youth in the Twin Cities and after a first, unsuccessful marriage to someone who dragged her into the suburbs but is left nameless.
		Midge and Norman have led, according to her account, stimulating professional and social lives at Commentary and in Midtown Manhattan and, for a spell, when their son-in-law rose to high place in the Reagan administration, in Washington circles as well.
		The crowning achievement of Decter’s life, which is never brought up directly but referred to in a fleeting allusion to how her old friend Pat Buchanan had become "unacceptable" as a "nativist," is having contributed to this monumental process.
	www.lewrockwell.com /gottfried/gottfried24.html (1702 words)

	Midge Decter - dKosopedia
		Midge Decter is a Neoconservative writer and speaker.
		Decter is known for her anti-Feminist and hawkish foreign policy views.
		Decter came under fire regarding remarks she made on the Warren Olney radio show in Los Angeles, during which she said about Iraq, "We're not in the Middle East to bring sweetness and light to the world.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Midge_Decter (126 words)

	Amazon.ca: An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War: Books: Midge Decter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Midge Decter was a publishing executive, the executive editor of Harper's, a single mom in New York, studied at the Jewish Theological Center, and held a variety of other postions and roles, and yet fails to paint a portrait of any of the places or people she has encountered.
		Decter promises to write about the "discovery of that in our lives which is never changing," which I assumed would be a reflection on the little life lessons she has learned over the years about being a wife, a daughter, a mother, a friend, and so on, but I have been deceived.
		I was initially put off by Decter's claim that she is a sort of Everywoman of the past 30 or so years.
	www.amazon.ca /Old-Wifes-Tale-Seven-Decades/dp/0060989009 (1528 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Rumsfeld, by Midge Decter, Hardcover
		Drawing on her long acquaintance with Rumsfeld, a wealth of documents, and interviews with him and his family, friends, and colleagues, Midge Decter provides riveting accounts of the many milestones marking the journey Rumsfeld made from the suburbs of Chicago to the Pentagon.
		In answering, she points to the values of the Midwest in which he was born and bred and the powerful appeal they still exert in spite of how old-fashioned they seem in certain circles.
		Midge Decter is an author and editor whose essays and reviews have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, National Review, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?endeca=1&ean=9780060560911 (791 words)

	Larry P. Arnn - Review of Midge Decter’s New Book Entitled Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Written by Midge Decter, it is entitled Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait.
		The story of a man, it is the story also of the war we fight and the choices it presents us at home.
		Midge Decter does a fine job describing how this controversy first began to unfold and how it was prosecuted here at home even during the fighting in Iraq.
	www.hillsdale.edu /arnn/columns/article.asp?ArticleID=8 (766 words)

	Democracy Project: Democracy Project
		Unbeknownst to Midge Decter, until last year, although having children of her own to raise, she has been my spiritual mother since I was 20.
		Midge Decter’s writings, on the nexus of culture and politics, the guide of the values we have at home to those we practice in the world, are rooted in the life experiences and concerns of a Jewish mother for the survival and success of her family.
		However, Midge Decter’s sense is closer to the core of sensibilities that have led and documented a generation’s movement from centrist liberalism to the core of America’s leading defenders.
	www.democracy-project.com /archives/002095.html (1485 words)

	Amazon.com: Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait: Books: Midge Decter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Decter sets out to explain Rumsfeld's sudden fame and to present the man's basic biography (although, as the subtitle states, this work is not a formal biography).
		Decter, though sympathetic toward her subject (as expected from such a well-known neoconservative), doesn't provide much information beyond Rumsfeld's known ascent from 1950s congressional aide to secretary of defense in 1975-77.
		Decter improves when she plays to her strength by analyzing the factors behind Rumsfeld's popularity, which she attributes to a yearning for decisive leadership after the empathic Clinton years.
	www.amazon.com /Rumsfeld-Personal-Portrait-Midge-Decter/dp/0060561106 (1855 words)

	Midge Decter - SourceWatch
		Midge Decter is the author of the soon-to-be-published book "Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait."[1] The "Rumsfeld" of the title is Department of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
		Nomination of Midge Decter To Be a Member of the Advisory Board for Radio Broadcasting to Cuba, March 13, 1985.
		"The President today announced his intention to nominate Midge Decter to be a member of the Advisory Board for Radio Broadcasting to Cuba for a term of 1 year.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Midge_Decter (748 words)

	Unnecessary Wars: Hillsdale IMPRIMIS - Midge Decter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Midge Decter’s essays and reviews have appeared over the past four decades in a number of periodicals, including The Atlantic, the American Spectator, First Things, National Review, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard and Commentary.
		Midge is one of the best writer/analysts in the business and has been for many years.
		Midge Decter is one of the truly clear thinkers....
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/765431/posts (2789 words)

	Midge Decter, Schema-Root rss
		John Podhoretzand#39;s mother, Neo-Conservative leader Midge Decter, was founding treasurer of Trainand#39;s foundation, and the most important source for her treasury was...
		Rumsfeld's biographer, Midge Decter, described him as a "media star." General Peter Pace and Newt Gingrich praised Rumsfeld's management skills.
		A recent example came from the wife of Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, cofounder of a plethora of single-minded think tanks ranging from the second incarnation...
	schema-root.org /rss/?p=2506 (1097 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| Midge Decter
		Midge Decter, wife of Norman Podhoretz (one of the key forefathers of neoconservatism), has been a major player for decades in the peace-through-strength ideological movement.
		She was a founding member of the hawkish Coalition for a Democratic Majority, served on the Committee on the Present Danger, directed the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, and founded the Committee for a Free World.
		She continues to advocate hard-line policies from her perch at the neoconservative Institute on Religion and Public Life, and she is affiliated with the Project for the New American Century as well as the Heritage Foundation and Hoover Institution.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1114 (262 words)

	Flynn Files -- Midge Decter Doesn't Get It (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In a piece in Monday's New York Post, Decter juxtaposes the Civil War's massive body count with the triple-digit death toll among Americans in Iraq.
		To combat mythic Iraqi connections to 9/11, a barely-existent nuclear weapons program, and weapons of mass destruction that Iraqis couldn't find when their country was invaded (for the same reason that Americans can't find them now that they have overrun Hussein's armies).
		Decter contends that "an outcry is being staged--and 'staged' is the word--over casualties amounting to a few hundred" in Iraq.
	www.flynnfiles.com /archives/world_events2004/midge_decter_doesnt_get_it.html (284 words)

	Personal Information for Midge Decter
		Biographical Information: An activist and a writer, Midge Decter has been an influential member of a small group of neoconservative intellectuals who have stood as notable exceptions to the oft-assumed link between American Jews and political liberalism.
		Decter is distinguished both for her career in publishing-as an editor at publications like Midstream, Commentary, and Harper's-and for her denouncements of feminism and liberalism.
		In addition, Decter has written numerous critiques of American foreign and domestic policy, bringing her unflinchingly conservative views to questions concerning Israel, affirmative action, and (during the Cold War) the Soviet Union.
	www.jwa.org /archive/jsp/perInfo.jsp?personID=994 (183 words)

	Midge Decter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Midge Decter was born 7/25/27 in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended the University of Minnesota, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and New York University.
		Midge Decter’s contribution to the foreign policy panel at the 40
		Midge Decter’s review of George Soros’ The Open Society and Its Enemy: A review of The Bubble of American Supremacy in The Claremont Review of Books.
	members.cox.net /wcampbell14/BHDecter.htm (254 words)

	Personal Information for Midge Decter
		Biographical Information: An activist and a writer, Midge Decter has been an influential member of a small group of neoconservative intellectuals who have stood as notable exceptions to the oft-assumed link between American Jews and political liberalism.
		Decter is distinguished both for her career in publishing-as an editor at publications like Midstream, Commentary, and Harper's-and for her denouncements of feminism and liberalism.
		In addition, Decter has written numerous critiques of American foreign and domestic policy, bringing her unflinchingly conservative views to questions concerning Israel, affirmative action, and (during the Cold War) the Soviet Union.
	jwa.org /archive/jsp/perInfo.jsp?personID=994 (179 words)

	Midge Decter Quotes & Quotations, Biographies And Pictures.
		Midge Decter Quotes & Quotations, Biographies And Pictures.
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		Most of the information found on focusdep.com is released under the the GNU license.
	www.focusdep.com /quotes/authors/Midge/Decter (102 words)

	The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America, by Midge Decter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America, by Midge Decter
		Midge Decter is an author and editor whose essays and reviews, mostly in the field of social criticism, have appeared over the past four decades in a number of periodicals, including Harper's, The Atlantic, The American Spectator, First Things, National Review, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard.
		She is a regular and frequent contributor to Commentary.
	www.101bananas.com /library/decter.html (3554 words)

	Bruce Jackson: Midge Decter and the Taxi Driver
		For years I've thought Midge Decter was, like her lunatic husband Norman Podhoretz, a far-right ideologue on all matters social, political and sexual who'd conned everyone into thinking she was smart enough to have her ideas, no matter how loopy, taken seriously.
		This is about Midge Decter's inability to distinguish solitary from collaborative enterprises, and the implications of that for readers of her political prose.)
		Unlike Midge Decter, she didn't find a single one of them sexy, or useful, or heroic.
	www.counterpunch.org /jackson11012003.html (1893 words)

	Midge Decter quotes, Famous quotations from Midge Decter, Populay Sayings at Entwagon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Midge Decter quotes, Famous quotations from Midge Decter, Populay Sayings at Entwagon.com
		Popular quotations from Midge Decter, Top Midge Decter quotes, Famous Authors,
		It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you.
	www.entwagon.com /cgi-bin/quotes/author.pl?auth=Midge_Decter (315 words)

	Phony Data Watch: Midge Decter - Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
		Neoconservatives often contend that a sensibly conservative American majority is being tyrannized by an hysterically leftist cultural elite that has managed to acquire awesome power even though it represents only a tiny minority.
		For purposes of comparison, Hadassah, an organization of American Zionist women--that is, an organization of a particular ideological segment of a community that itself constituted only about 2 or 2 and one-half percent of the American population--had a membership of something like 350,000 [italics Chatterbox's].
		Given that this is one of the few bona fide facts to appear in Decter's book (for some reason, even her maiden name, Rosenthal, and the first name of her first husband are withheld), Decter ought to have checked it.
	www.slate.com /id/1008207 (591 words)

	A Jew in Anti-Christian America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The little girl from St. Paul has come a long way and so, I keep hoping and believing, have at least some of the boys from Nativity.
		Midge Decter recently retired as Distinguished Fellow of the Institute on Religion and Public Life.
		This essay originated as the 1995 Erasmus Lecture, which is sponsored by the institute.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9510/decter.html (4553 words)

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