Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservativism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
by By Tanner, Michael D.
Category: Political Science , American Government , General

Tanner (director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute) argues that the current policies of the Republican Party make a mockery of the traditional small government conservatism of Friedrich Hayek and Barry Goldwater and will lead the United States down Hayek's "road to serfdom" as well as lead to electoral disaster for the Republican Party. Largely avoiding the foreign policy of George W. Bush and the curtailments on civil liberties that have accompanied his "War on Terror," he examines and critiques the rise of big government conservatism, finding it to be an admixture of neoconservatism, national greatness conservatism, the religious right, supply-side economics, technophiles exemplified by Newt Gingrich. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)