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Dead Right
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.520973
EAN: 9780465098255
ISBN: 0465098258
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 06, 1995
Publisher: Basic Books
Studio: Basic Books
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Editorial Review:
A Forbes columnist discusses the ideological breakdown of the Republican Party, its failure to diminish the deficit or the size of government in twelve years of control, and outlines a plan for renewal through a return to basic issues.Part reportage, part manifesto, Dead Right leads readers on a witty and opinionated tour through the chaos of post-Reagan conservatism. It explains why the “Religious Right” is a phony menace … why President Reagan failed to eliminate even one major spending program … why the 1992 Republican convention, originally conceived as a cunning ploy, backfired … and much more. David Frum analyzes the conservative movement’s turn away from the economic issues that dominated the 1980s to a new preoccupation with race, ethnicity, and sex. He explains how and why conservatives decided to stop fighting Big Government and start using it. And he warns that a conservatism that loses its anti–Big Government faith is doomed to futility. Dead Right dissects the new conservative position on issues ranging from education to workfare, immigration to enterprise zones, and ruthlessly scrutinizes the leadership of the conservative movement. Always lively and provocative, this is the one book that conservatives and their critics must read to understand the past and future of the American Right.
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Rating:  - mildly dated, but still useful
Written in the "dark" years between the defeat of George H. W. Bush in 1992 and the Republican "revolution" of 1994, David Frum's book takes stock of the conservative movement, with a particular eye toward the successes and failures of the Reagan administration. On that score, Frum is somewhat negative but, for the most part, accurate: "the great temptation of the Reagan years: to attempt to use government for conservative purposes rather than to push it back within its proper limits." It is ... Read More
Rating: - Did I Take A Wrong Turn?
There were two reasons I read this book. The first is that if you read a lot of political books covering the last 20 years then there is a good chance this book as come up in the text. It always gets good reviews and is held out as the book that will tell you exactly how the far right thinks. The second reason was that I heard the author speak recently and found him interesting and oddly engaging. To offer full disclosure I lean a bit left of the moderate political line so my reading of the book ... Read More
Rating:  - Faithful are the wounds of a friend . . .
David Frum is a conservative not afraid to give blunt, constructive criticism to his fellows. In "Dead Right", he questions whether the Republican coalition has actually made any progress toward reducing the size and scope of the federal government. In spite of good intentions, he determines very little progress has been made because the GOP is unwilling to incur the pain of telling people what they don't want to hear, which is that moving from a self-reliant nation to a welfare state has damaged our ... Read More
Rating: - Right-wing propaganda
This book gives a disturbing look at the agenda of the far right. Frum shows courage is his ability not to sugar coat the far right's message but state it as it is. He often smacks of racism using such terms as "black" and "underclass" virtually interchangably. Frum advocates stopping immigration because he believes America is risking "cultural suicide." More disturbing is his vision of a good society. Frum endorses reinstating social stigmas against homosexuality, ... Read More
Rating: - "Dead Right" Tells Conservatives What They Need to Know
"Dead Right," by David Frum, lays it all on the line, telling conservatives not necessarily what they want to hear, but definitely what they need to know. Mr. Frum points out the problems of the conservative movement, and discusses where conservatives have went wrong in pushing their agenda, and what they must do to truly save the nation from the liberal muck in which it currently rests.
Mr. Frum puts conservatives into three distince categories: optomists, moralists, and nationalists. In ... Read More
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