Why I turned right : leading baby boom conservatives chronicle their political journeys /
Eberstadt, Mary.
New York ; London : Threshold Editions,
c2007.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-291).
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.
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.
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