The corrosion of conservatism
Subtitle: why I left the right
By: Max Boot
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781631495670
Subjects: Politics and government; Conservatism; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Political and social views
Description: "No longer a Republican, but also not a Democrat, Boot here records his ideological journey from a “movement” conservative to a man without a party, beginning with his political coming-of-age as a young émigré from the Soviet Union, enthralled with the National Review and the conservative intellectual tradition of Russell Kirk and F. A. Hayek. Against this personal odyssey, Boot simultaneously traces the evolution of modern American conservatism, jump-started by Barry Goldwater’s canonical The Conscience of a Conservative, to the rise of Trumpism and its gradual corrosion of what was once the Republican Party"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index.