Why I turned right : leading baby boom conservatives chronicle their political journeys / edited and with an introduction by Mary Eberstadt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eberstadt, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservatives--United States--Biography.

Conservatives.

Conservatism--United States.

Conservatism.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 291 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Threshold Editions, [2007]

Summary:

Political vicissitudes aside, with or without a conservative administration, whether or not America is engaged in war, or regardless of who next holds the majority either in Congress or the Court, the United States as a whole has boldly, unabashedly moved right. But the question remains: Why? How did a movement that appeared so sidelined and embattled only a generation ago emerge as such a strong, influential, and enduring united front? Here, eminent and rising conservatives--at odds themselves on a number of issues--answer the question. Not through polemic, reactionary preaching, or rage, but in the most practical and sensible way possible: via the sharp, critical, and unfiltered voices and canny observations of uniquely positioned authors, editors, humorists, and political refugees inadvertently born of the sexual revolution and the PC movement, who ultimately landed on the conservative side of America's red-blue divide--in some cases, much to their own surprise.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction / Mary Eberstadt

The unthinking man's guide to conservatism / P.J. O'Rourke

Killer rabbits and the continuing crisis / Richard Starr

Confessions of a Greenwich Village conservative / David Brooks

Recollections of a campus renegade / Dinesh D'Souza

Down and out with Paul De Man / Heather Mac Donald

Pig heads / Stanley Kurtz

The events leading up to my execution / Joseph Bottum

Pacifists, pacifiers, and snakeskin miniskirts / Danielle Crittenden

Choices and consequences / Tod Lindberg

The most dangerous psychiatrist in America / Sally Satel

The longer way / Peter Berkowitz

I was a teenage conservative / Rich Lowry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-291).

ISBN:

9781416528555

1416528555

OCLC:

70676646

Online:

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