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From Liberal Activist to Conservative Champion in 35 Unconventional Lessons
Three Rivers Press
December 2005
448 pages
ISBN: 1400098327
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Non-Fiction
Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic
Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from
liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he
has earned millions of admirers--and more than his share of
enemies--by advancing controversial, often counterintuitive
arguments, including:
* Liberals love losing because
it makes them feel virtuous
* America isn't
normal--it's
bizarrely blessed
* Hollywood has lost touch with
America--and punishes people who point that out
*
Conservatives are both happier and nicer than liberals
*
Talk radio is a source of hope, not hatred
* Business
isn't exploitative--it's heroic
* There is no
such thing
as "planned parenthood"
* A more Christian America is
good for the Jews
* Do-it-yourself conservatism provides
the only cure for save-the-world liberalism
In the
candid, electrifying Right Turns, Medved chronicles
the adventures that taught him these and many other
lessons--the startling events that propelled him from Vietnam
protest leader to optimistic promoter of American
patriotism, from secularism to religion, from adventurous
single guy to doting husband and father. In the process he
skewers leftist orthodoxy, revealing why the Right is right
and why his former colleagues on the Left remain hopelessly
wrong on every cultural, political, and social issue.
Medved enters today's ideological fray armed with
experience as, among many other things, a campaign aide for
radical Democrats, a minority recruiter for police
departments, a Hollywood screenwriter, a Bobby Kennedy
volunteer, a teacher at religious schools, a world-champion
hitchhiker, an expert on bad movies, and a veteran TV host
on PBS and a British network--who declines to own a TV
himself.
Medved relishes the contradictions behind
the high-profile controversies in which he's played a
leading role--as a prominent movie reviewer who attacked the
film industry in a bestselling book, as an observant Jew
whose radio show is a favorite with evangelical Christians,
as a writer once designated the "Bard of the Baby Boomers"
who now expresses contempt for his generation's arrogant
indulgence, and as a fearless battler who has sought advice
from both Rush Limbaugh and Hillary Clinton and has given
advice to both Mel Gibson and Barbra
Streisand.
Right Turns displays the slashing
argument and disarming wit that have made Medved's radio
program America's number one show on politics and pop culture.
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