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The Right
- The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
- Narrated by: Carl Sayles
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism
When most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan. Yet this narrow view leaves many to question: How did Donald Trump win the presidency? And what is the future of the Republican Party?
In The Right, Matthew Continetti gives a sweeping account of movement conservatism’s evolution, from the Progressive Era through the present. He tells the story of how conservatism began as networks of intellectuals, developing and institutionalizing a vision that grew over time, until they began to buckle under new pressures, resembling national populist movements. Drawing out the tensions between the desire for mainstream acceptance and the pull of extremism, Continetti argues that the more one studies conservatism’s past, the more one becomes convinced of its future.
Deeply researched and brilliantly told, The Right is essential for anyone looking to understand American conservatism.
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“[A] sturdy account of the many divisions within modern conservatism… Rational, well thought out, and impeccably argued—of interest to all students of politics.”—Kirkus
“Matthew Continetti has earned his luminous reputation as the foremost contemporary chronicler of American conservatism’s path to today’s problematic condition. He traces conservatism’s rich intellectual pedigree, from the founders’ classical liberalism through twentieth-century conservatives’ responses to the challenges of progressivism. The result is a thinking person’s map for the road ahead.”—George F. Will, author of The Conservative Sensibility
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- Anonymous User
- 19-10-22
A great book for the Right
An excellent narration of the tumultuous odyssey of American conservatism from 19th to 21st centuries
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-23
Excellent overview of American right
As a left leaning person from Poland fascinated by american political system I was looking for a book explaining the side of the system that I don’t understand that well as the progressive one. I was not disappointed. This is very clear and forensic examination of past and present American conservatism, ideas and people forming it. Although the author is himself probably a conservative the book is objective to its. Even more, the author can draw from his own experiences. Really recommended read for anyone who wants to know both sides of current American political divide.
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