A critical look at American Ambassador to the UN Daniel Patrick Moynihan's valiant stand against its 1975 declaration of Zionism as a form of racism shows just how much -- and how little -- Moynihan's moment accomplished, and how relevant it remains today.

• Introduction: Raising Hell: Moynihan's Moment


• Prelude: 1945: "We the Peoples of the United Nations"


• Chapter 1: 1975: "The United States in Opposition" or the New World Disorder


• Chapter 2: The Making of a Warrior-Diplomat: Pat Moynihan as Insider and Outsider


• Chapter 3: The Sixties' "False Lexicon of Political Cliches" : Racializing Conflict and anti-Zionism with White Guilt


• Chapter 4:"Scary Doings at Mexico City": The International Women's Year Debacle and the Third World World's Che Guevara Rules


• Chapter 5: "We've Got to Stop This" Moynihan on the Move: October, 1975


• Chapter 6: Oom, Shmoom: "Where are your bloody Jews?"


• Chapter 7: "The United States does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act." November, 1975


• Chapter 8: "I AM A ZIONIST": The Liberal Backlash - Against the UN


• Chapter 9: This is "not the OK Corral and I am hardly Wyatt Earp": The Diplomatic Backlash - Against Moynihan


• Epilogue 1: "A Resolution Born out of Bitter Ideological Confrontation among the Nations of the World"


• Epilogue 2: Durban 2001: "The Terrible Lie" with "Terrible Consequences": The Return of Zionism Is Racism in the Delegitmization Derby, the Destruction Dysfunction, and the New Anti-Semitism

Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University, a Visiting Scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC and a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow in Jerusalem. He is the author of six books on American history, including See How They Ran: The Changing Role of Presidential Candidates, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents, and The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction