Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political JourneysMary Eberstadt Simon and Schuster, 2007 M02 13 - 304 pages 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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... contributors , all leading lights in one way or another in the intellectual firmament of the current right , wish to explain here . That such a book might make for interesting reading was a thought kindled in me some months back during ...
... contributors , all leading lights in one way or another in the intellectual firmament of the current right , wish to explain here . That such a book might make for interesting reading was a thought kindled in me some months back during ...
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... contributors represent in minia- ture the generation now peopling the right - leaning think tanks and airwaves and internet and book and magazine publishing — in a word , some of the human nuts and bolts of what Hillary Clinton once ...
... contributors represent in minia- ture the generation now peopling the right - leaning think tanks and airwaves and internet and book and magazine publishing — in a word , some of the human nuts and bolts of what Hillary Clinton once ...
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... contributors, just seeing the postlibera- tion scene up close and too personal was enough to cause them to think that Conrad Helmsley might be right— including and perhaps especially those whose own stories owe more to St. Augustine ...
... contributors, just seeing the postlibera- tion scene up close and too personal was enough to cause them to think that Conrad Helmsley might be right— including and perhaps especially those whose own stories owe more to St. Augustine ...
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... contributors passed through that one author , formerly apo- litical science student Sally Satel , reports political awaken- ing on account of something happening elsewhere : There was one more formative event for me that had nothing ...
... contributors passed through that one author , formerly apo- litical science student Sally Satel , reports political awaken- ing on account of something happening elsewhere : There was one more formative event for me that had nothing ...
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... contributors that is related to what drew them to the right , which is the relationship between contemporary conserva- tism and religious belief . Of course not all conservatives are religious , and not all religious people are ...
... contributors that is related to what drew them to the right , which is the relationship between contemporary conserva- tism and religious belief . Of course not all conservatives are religious , and not all religious people are ...
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