Posted on 08/04/2005 6:05:48 PM PDT by bluerose
Multibillionaire commodities king Bruce Kovner is the patron saint of the neoconservatives, the new Lincoln Center's crucial Medici, owner of a vast Fifth Avenue mansion and the most powerful New Yorker you've never heard of.
If no one knows anything about Bruce Kovner, it is because he likes it that way. Yet the unassuming manner is camouflage for one of the most powerful people in the country, culturally, financially, and politically. Kovner, 60 years old and divorced, manages the largest hedge fund in the world and every year ratchets higher on the Forbes list of the richest Americans (most recently, 106).
As Kovner makes his way through the city, so does he consume the nation. Heís a neoconservative godfather. He is among the backers of the Manhattan Institute and the fledgling right-wing daily the New York Sun.
Most important, Kovner is chairman of the American Enterprise Institute. The right-wing think tank has supplied the government with the most powerful ideas in foreign policy in a generation, a vision of a supremely idealistic and militaristic American empire that must carry democracy out from its shores by force and begin by remaking the Middle East. In a speech at AEI, George W. Bush thanked the tank for supplying him more brains than any other organization, nearly twenty, including Dick Cheney, who is said to be close to Kovner, and John Bolton, the fireman's son who wants to raise his voice in the corridors of the United Nations.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyorkmetro.com ...
"As Kovner makes his way through the city, so does he consume the nation."
Is this an example of NY Magazine? Sounds like a high school newspaper or something.
I was really taken by the twist this guy put on it at the end; calling him paranoid etc. I think the author is the one who is looking for help....
Just a slight difference.
Yeah, just a minor difference : )
Thank you very much for bringing this to us.
The author strings out the article and builds up the man and then: cuts him off at the knees.
Kovner sounds like an interesting and likeable man. The Right, oh, excuse me, I should say the HARD right, is fortunate to have a benefactor such as he.
Intellegent too.
He will probably make some lucky woman a wonderful husband.
You're welcome.
This is an excellent article about a guy we're lucky to have.
Can anyone get the rest of the article?
Can anyone get the rest of the article?
This article was posted in its entirety here:
Thanks.
Haven't read the article but if he is a AEI member he should have a page and some other work at their website.
*snicker* I thought the most powerful New Yorker was Denise Rich?
Big bump.
Right-wing activist billionaires are our friends.
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