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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Thomas Frank
Metropolitan Books, 2008
top notch writing, dead-on analysis
Frank has done another superlative job that follows on his equally savvy and well written "what's the matter with Kansas?" Extensive footnoting, clear writing and a wry sense of humor make this book a delight. Required reading for anyone with an interest in making ...
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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Thomas Frank
Holt Paperbacks, 2005
there is a lot wrong with Kansas
Author explores how Kansas has been dumbed down enough to vote against their own interest. The big media will shove footage of two female pop stars kissing at an awards ceremony: The folks in Kansas will vote to lower their taxes and the taxes of the media ...
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The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
James Galbraith
Free Press, 2008
The "free market" is not a real thing
Galbraith correctly shows us that the "free market" is an ideal construct, not a real thing. There has never been any truly "free market", unaffected by government policies for good or bad.
Although I would give Galbraith a "A" for effort in dumbing down some of ...
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The Conservative's Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z
Phil Valentine
Cumberland House Publishing, 2008
Conservative's Handbook review
Anyone who wants to learn more about the principles of conservatism should read this book. It can be read from beginning to end or it can be read one chapter at a time. The foundation for conservatism is easily explained. It gives the long-time conservative or new to ...
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God And Man At Yale: 50Th Anniversary Edition
Jr., William F. Buckley
ISI Conservative Classics, 2004
God Not a Universal Perception
With all due respect to Mr. Buckley's respect for his religion, Catholicism, the revelation to me is that scholarly steeples at Yale apparently affect persons differently. Some see them as hallowed, others as mere obstacles to hurdle in pursuit of what are often ...
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Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue by Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A ...
Gregg Jackson
JAJ Publishing, 2006
Eye-opening
I am a Republican, but I never realized ALL that the democrats have done to the individual and our country. This book was spellbinding. I was up almost all night reading it. And I will still go back to it to read again and again.
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The Revolution: A Manifesto
Ron Paul
Grand Central Publishing, 2008
Useful change is impossible
...unless you understand what has gone wrong. Ron Paul does and speaks to the VERY pressing issues. It's hard to "not get it" after Dr Paul covers it. It's a fast read.
Buy a copy (or two or three) and give as gifts to your friends or family who voted for the ...
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday, 2008
Liberal Fascism
The author's reasoning is immediately sensable and well researched. The difficulty, as poiinted out by Jonah Goldberg, is that the term "fascist" is used for the enemy or adversary from many points of view. This allows the Liberal to skate, almost unnoticed.
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Conscience of a Conservative
Barry Goldwater
Bnpublishing.com, 2007
Fabulous book.
This is an absolutely terrific book that everyone with any interest in politics should read.
It doesn't matter whether your personal viewpoint is conservative or liberal -- it will give you much to ponder. It will challenge you to understand, more deeply, your ...
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How to Win a Fight with a Conservative
Daniel Kurtzman
Hysteria Publications, 2007
A Really Humorous Book, Just Don't Take it Too Seriously
A friend gave me this book for Christmas this year because she knew how much I enjoyed ranting about politics. While it is not truly a self-help book, and I doubt anyone will win a fight with a conservative by following its directions, it is an enjoyable little ...
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A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, ...
Brian D. McLaren
Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006
An excellent vision of a Christian orthodoxy
I absolutely loved Brian McLaren's "A New Kind of Christian", a book that opened up a whole new world for me of possibilities of staying within the Christian faith, something on which I had almost given up. Rob Bell's "Velvet Elvis", in a different way, did the same. ...
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Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think
George Lakoff
University Of Chicago Press, 2002
An interesting (though perhaps flawed) theory of politics
I'm giving this book 5 stars because I found it fascinating, and would recommend it. But I must confess that I have mixed feelings about it. This book attempts to explain why some Americans are "progressive" and others are "conservative" based on their conception of ...
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A Conservative History of the American Left
Daniel J. Flynn
Crown Forum, 2008
Amazing information presented with scrupulous fairness
With wit and insight Flynn traces the utopians who have longed to change society. Some were merely silly, some were mad, and some evil.
Take the "strange men who founded" (p 47) the Harvard commune. One was a vegetarian who would eat apples one year, crackers ...
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The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right
Andrew Sullivan
Harper Perennial, 2007
Conservativism as Attitude to Life
Andrew Sullivan is one of our premier public intellectuals and a delight to read. Both facts are confirmed by this book. While at first glance you would think he will be making talking points for a political perspective, Sullivan quickly disabuses the reader of such a ...
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The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
Russell Kirk
BN Publishing, 2008
The Definitive Volume for Conservatives
~The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot~ by the late Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American conservatism. This is real conservatism, not the typical neocon tripe by David Frum or Sean Hannity that masquerades behind ...
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