Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political JourneysMary Eberstadt Simon and Schuster, 13/02/2007 - 304 páginas 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 (as the infamous red and blue map made unforgettably clear) 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? In Why I Turned Right, eminent and rising conservatives -- at odds themselves on a number of issues from religion, family, sex, to stem cell research, abortion, and war -- answer the question. And they answer it 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. A fascinating intellectual journey, this "family of opinions," as contributor Peter Berkowitz terms it, represents the extraordinarily varied paths that have led these authors from the championed liberalism of their youth to eventually fuel the world of conservative think tanks, magazines, blogs, and book publishing. Whether you are for the Right or against, guarded supporter or puzzled progressive, Why I Turned Right proves an entertaining, enlightening, and edifying read for anyone with an open mind -- both the red and the blue, and everyone in between. |
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... thought kindled in me some months back during a conver- sation with P. J. O'Rourke about the striking number of po- litical conversion stories we each knew . We had in mind not the eminent converts of the preceding generation, many of ...
... thought kindled in me some months back during a conver- sation with P. J. O'Rourke about the striking number of po- litical conversion stories we each knew . We had in mind not the eminent converts of the preceding generation, many of ...
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... my life . The Closing of the American Mind gave voice to a thousand fugitive thoughts and feelings I'd only half- acknowledged for years . " Similarly , Peter Berkowitz : 26892 Text.indd 9 1/17/07 11:57:29 AM Mary Eberstadt 9.
... my life . The Closing of the American Mind gave voice to a thousand fugitive thoughts and feelings I'd only half- acknowledged for years . " Similarly , Peter Berkowitz : 26892 Text.indd 9 1/17/07 11:57:29 AM Mary Eberstadt 9.
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... thought of Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto . There is also the practical fact that some authors served apprenticeships at flagship journals including The Public Interest , American Spectator , The National Interest , and other ...
... thought of Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto . There is also the practical fact that some authors served apprenticeships at flagship journals including The Public Interest , American Spectator , The National Interest , and other ...
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... thought: This can't be right, either. And finally it became clear, one evening while watching a Stalinesque rigged “debate” on the subject in which a modest local Baptist preacher was put up against a Marcusian feminist and incessantly ...
... thought: This can't be right, either. And finally it became clear, one evening while watching a Stalinesque rigged “debate” on the subject in which a modest local Baptist preacher was put up against a Marcusian feminist and incessantly ...
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... thought . My political convictions are a result of thinking or , to be specific , lack thereof . I was brought up in Republican circumstances , firmly grounded in convention . I was swept out to Marxist sea by a flood of sex . I was ...
... thought . My political convictions are a result of thinking or , to be specific , lack thereof . I was brought up in Republican circumstances , firmly grounded in convention . I was swept out to Marxist sea by a flood of sex . I was ...
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