The Right Nation: Conservative Power in AmericaPenguin, 2004 - Всего страниц: 450 With a unique blend of insight, balance, and wit, two of our most renowned America watchers brilliantly anatomize the conservative movement and explain how it has stamped its program so deeply into American life. The Right Nationis not "for" liberals, and it's not "for" conservatives. It's for any of us who want to understand one of the most important forces shaping American life. How did America's government become so much more conservative in just a generation? Compared to Europe-or to America under Richard Nixon-even President Howard Dean would preside over a distinctly more conservative nation in many crucial respects: welfare is gone; the death penalty is deeply rooted; abortion is under siege; regulations are being rolled back; the pillars of New Deal liberalism are turning to sand. Conservative positions have not prevailed everywhere, of course, but this book shows us why they've been so successfully advanced over such a broad front: because the battle has been waged by well-organized, shrewd, and committed troops who to some extent have been lucky in their enemies. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, like modern-day Tocquevilles, have the perspective to see this vast subject in the round, unbeholden to forces on either side. They steer The Economist's coverage of the United States and have unrivaled access to resources and-because of the magazine's renown for iconoclasm and analytical rigor-have had open-door access wherever the book's research has led them. And it has led them everywhere: To reckon with the American right, you have to get out there where its centers are and understand the power flow among the brain trusts, the mouthpieces, the organizers, and the foot soldiers. The authors write with wit and skewer whole herds of sacred cows, but they also bring empathy to bear on a subject that sees all too little of it. You won't recognize this America from the far-left's or the far-right's caricatures. Divided into three parts-history, anatomy, and prophecy-The Right Nationcomes neither to bury the American conservative movement nor to praise it blindly but to understand it, in all its dimensions, as the most powerful and effective political movement of our age. |
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PARTI HISTORY | 15 |
From Kennebunkport to Crawford | 27 |
The Conservative Rout 19521964 | 40 |
The Agony of Liberalism 19641988 | 63 |
The FiftyFifty Nation 19882000 | 94 |
ANATOMY | 129 |
For Texas Business and God | 131 |
The Rive Droite | 151 |
Too Southern Too Greedy and Too Contradictory | 249 |
Behind Enemy Lines | 270 |
EXCEPTION | 289 |
America the Different | 291 |
The Roots of American Exceptionalism | 314 |
Americas Exceptional Conservatism | 334 |
The Melancholy Long Withdrawing Roar of Liberalism | 354 |
Living with the Right Nation | 374 |
The Brawn | 172 |
The Right and the War Against Terror | 198 |
PART III | 225 |
The Path to Republican Hegemony? | 227 |
APPENDIX | 399 |
NOTES | 405 |
425 | |
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