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Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys
Threshold Editions
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 1416528563
EAN: 9781416528562
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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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