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Also by Joe Scarborough:

The Right Path, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last Best Hope, June 2009
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THE RIGHT PATH
By: Joe Scarborough

From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics--and Can Again

Random House
November 2013
On Sale: November 12, 2013
220 pages
ISBN: 0812996143
EAN: 9780812996142
Kindle: B00DXKJOVA
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Political

Joe Scarborough—former Republican congressman and the always insightful host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe—takes a nuanced and surprising look at the unexpected rise and self-inflicted fall of the Republican Party. Dominant in national politics for forty years under the influence of the conservative but pragmatic leadership of Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, the GOP, Scarborough argues, is in a self-inflicted eclipse. The only way forward? Recover the principled realism of the giants who led the party to greatness.
 
In the aftermath of Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 landslide, the Republican Party appeared to be on the verge of permanent irrelevance. LBJ’s Great Society was institutionalizing sweeping liberal reforms, and the United States had a thriving, prosperous economy. Yet in an instant everything changed, and the next four decades would witness an unprecedented era of Republican ascendancy. What happened?
 
In The Right Path, Joe Scarborough looks back in time to discern how Republicans once dominated American public life. From Eisenhower’s refusal to let “the perfect be the enemy of the good” to Reagan’s charismatic but resolutely practical genius, Scarborough shows how principled pragmatism, combined with a commitment to core conservative values, led to victory after victory.
 
Now, however, political incalcitrance is threatening to turn a once-mighty party into a permanent minority.  
 
Opening with the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965—the high-water moment for liberalism—and ending with the national disillusionment that set in after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, The Right Path effortlessly blends American political history with astute analysis and pithy, no-holds-barred commentary. Both a bracing call to arms and a commonsense history, The Right Path provides an illuminating look at conservatism and its discontents—and why the GOP must regain its former tone and tradition if it hopes to survive.

Media Buzz

CBS This Morning - November 13, 2013
Today - November 12, 2013
The View - November 12, 2013
Meet the Press - November 10, 2013