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The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive For Permanent Power
Basic Books
September 2006
On Sale: August 28, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0465018157
EAN: 9780465018154
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
From one of America's most distinguished political
journalists, a penetrating analysis of the Republicans' plan
to make themselves the permanent majority party, and what it
means to the rest of us It's no secret that the Republicans are aiming for a
generation-long realignment that will establish them as the
majority party for the rest of our lifetimes. But few people
outside the far right understand what that means. Any
realignment has huge effects on political culture, and this
one is more ambitious than any other in our history,
including the Democratic takeover in the 1930s. It is the
first deliberate realignment. It involves cultural
changes--in the media and in the academy--that were never
part of previous realignments. And it encompasses
institutional changes in areas like foreign policy and the
judiciary, whose independence was always respected in the past. Every aspect of society and every office of government is
being turned to the purpose of strengthening Republican
institutions--businesses, evangelical Protestant
churches--and weakening Democratic ones, such as unions and
consumer groups. Building Red America will bring home to
readers for the first time the true extent of the Republican
takeover of American politics, by revealing the chief
architects of political revolution. The result is a masterful--and disturbing--work of political
journalism that challenges all of us to wake up and take
heed before the world has changed beyond recognition.
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