Review excerpt:

Notwithstanding the subtitle of his book, Mr. Kristol has still not written a full-length memoir, unlike Norman Podhoretz and his other neoconservative colleagues. This is a collection of Mr. Kristol's essays--some from 45 years ago, others more recent--tracing the "intellectual evolution of one American from a brief, youthful socialism, through a long period of ever more skeptical and self-critical liberalism, to something that came to be known as 'neoconservatism.'"

Jonathan Dorfman is a Boston businessman who writes frequently on politics and religion. Irving Kristol is a senior fellow at AEI.