Why the Right Went Wrong
Subtitle: Conservatsm - From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781476763798
Description: Why the Right Went Wrong offers a historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American conservatism and the Republican Party took a wrong turn when they adopted Barry Goldwater's worldview during and after the 1964 campaign. The radicalism of today's conservatism is not the product of the Tea Party, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne writes. The Tea Partiers are the true heirs to Goldwater ideology. The purity movement did more than drive moderates out of the Republican Party--it beat back alternative definitions of conservatism. --Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction: What Happened to Conservatism?
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: The Ambiguous Hero
pagenum: 27; label: 2
title: In the Shadow of Goldwater
pagenum: 38; label: 3
title: From Radicalism to Governing
pagenum: 66; label: 4
title: The End of the Reagan Majority
pagenum: 94; label: 5
title: The Gingrich Revolution and Conservatism's Second Chance
pagenum: 124; label: 6
title: Put On a Compassionate Face
pagenum: 160; label: 7
title: Double-Edged "Strategery"
pagenum: 179; label: 8
title: "I Can Hear You"
pagenum: 197; label: 9
title: The New, New, Old Right
pagenum: 236; label: 10
title: Dreams of Celestial Choirs
pagenum: 261; label: 11
title: The Logic of Obstruction
pagenum: 291; label: 12
title: The Tea Party Overreaches and Republicans Wage Class War
pagenum: 323; label: 13
title: Saying Yes and No to Obama
pagenum: 365; label: 14
title: The Fever That Wouldn't Break
pagenum: 385; label: 15
title: Reforming Conservatism or Trumping It
pagenum: 415; label: 16
title: Up From Goldwaterism
pagenum: 443; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 469; title: Notes
pagenum: 477; title: A Brief Bibliographical Essay
pagenum: 503; title: Index
pagenum: 509