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Why the Right Went Wrong

Conservatsm - From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

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An edition of Why the Right Went Wrong (2016)

Why the Right Went Wrong

Conservatsm - From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

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An analysis of why American conservatives represented by the Republican party behaved the way they did from the 1960s to just before the 2016 presidental election.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
532

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Subjects

U.S. Congress, American politics, governance, Conservatism, History, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2016-02-07, New York Times bestseller

People

William Buckley, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, William Clinton, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Ronald Regan

Times

1964-2016

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Table of Contents

Contents
Page ix
Introduction: What Happened to Conservatism?
Page 1
1. The Ambiguous Hero
Page 27
2. In the Shadow of Goldwater
Page 38
3. From Radicalism to Governing
Page 66
4. The End of the Reagan Majority
Page 94
5. The Gingrich Revolution and Conservatism's Second Chance
Page 124
6. Put On a Compassionate Face
Page 160
7. Double-Edged "Strategery"
Page 179
8. "I Can Hear You"
Page 197
9. The New, New, Old Right
Page 236
10. Dreams of Celestial Choirs
Page 261
11. The Logic of Obstruction
Page 291
12. The Tea Party Overreaches and Republicans Wage Class War
Page 323
13. Saying Yes and No to Obama
Page 365
14. The Fever That Wouldn't Break
Page 385
15. Reforming Conservatism or Trumping It
Page 415
16. Up From Goldwaterism
Page 443
Acknowledgments
Page 469
Notes
Page 477
A Brief Bibliographical Essay
Page 503
Index
Page 509

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New York City, New York, USA

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Library of Congress
JC573.2.U6 D57 2016

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
x, 532p
Number of pages
532
Weight
715 grams

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OL25953438M
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whyrightwentwron0000dion
ISBN 13
9781476763798
LCCN
2015027336
OCLC/WorldCat
913337587

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The history of contemporary American conservatism is a story of disappointment and betrayal.
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