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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Republican treason	Joseph Burrell	"This book is a polemic directed against the Republican Party and the conservative movement, drawing largely on their own published statements. Alleging that the Republican Party is fascist and treas…	OL11970364W
The postmodern imagination of Russell Kirk	Gerald J. Russello	"Russelo examines Russell Kirk's development of the imagination as a tool of conservative discourse, offering an alternative genealogy for conservative thought that melds its antimodernism with postm…	OL12068551W
The myth of the imperial judiciary	Mark Kozlowski	"The Myth of the Imperial Judiciary explores the anti-judicial ideological trend of the American right, refuting these claims and taking a realistic look at the role of courts in our democracy to sho…	OL12489623W
The High Tide of American Conservatism	Garland S. Tucker, III	Historians have generally failed to understand the significance of the election of 1924, the last time both major political parties nominated a bona fide conservative candidate. 'The High Tide of Ame…	OL15655538W
Voice of reason	Ronn Owens	Voice of Reason is a breath of fresh air in today's toxic political climate, offering a positive message in dark times: that with reason, common sense, and pragmatism, we can find common ground betwe…	OL15840839W
Bushwomen	Laura Flanders	"The Bushwomen - the women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet and sub-cabinet - are cast in the public mind as moderate, malleable, maverick, irrelevant or benign. Their careful…	OL15848614W
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America	Paul Edward Gottfried	This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. According to this study, Strauss and …	OL15991820W
The stoning of Sally Kern	Sally Kern	Recounts the Oklahoma State Representative's speech sharing some revelations about a homosexual political strategy and the aftermath of hate mail and media coverage.	OL16167164W
The reactionary mind	Corey Robin	Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrify…	OL16282731W
Don't vote, it just encourages the bastards	P. J. O'Rourke	America's most subversive conservative, O'Rourke describes government as a devil's bargain between power, freedom, and responsibility, and goes on to hilariously skewer the politicians who have barga…	OL16452837W
The flipside of feminism	Suzanne Venker	Argues that the feminist movement has been harmful to women and society and that traditional roles will benefit everyone.	OL16604877W
What the (bleep) just happened?	Monica Crowley	"Monica Crowley offers a rollicking, sharp-elbowed tour of the damage caused by Barack Obama's reckless spending and radical political agenda. But she also sets the stage for the inevitable conservat…	OL16626980W
Christian Reconstruction	Michael J. McVicar	This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-2001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's pers…	OL17310116W
The Portable conservative reader	Russell Kirk	Includes material by Edmund Burke, T.S. Eliot, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Southey, Macaulay, James Fenimore Cooper, Benjamin Disraeli, John Henry Newman, Walter Bagehot, Henry Adams, Paul…	OL17814025W
The forty years war	Len Colodny	An exposé of the neo-conservative movement throughout the past four decades documents its role in undermining the Nixon administration, supporting Reagan, and promoting the war in Iraq, in a report t…	OL17915175W
The death of conservatism	Sam Tanenhaus	Sam Tanenhaus's essay "Conservatism Is Dead" prompted intense discussion and debate when it was published in The New Republic in the first days of Barack Obama's presidency. Now Tanenhaus, a leading …	OL1845128W
God in the corridors of power	Michael Ryan,Les Switzer	God in the Corridors of Power: Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America is a comprehensive study of Christian conservative power in America's political culture -- how it was achiev…	OL1920725W
Conservatism	Robert A. Nisbet,Robert Nisbet	The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for Community. In fact. Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's w…	OL1921742W
The political mind	George Lakoff	This volume attempts to harness cognitive science to rally progressive politicians and voters by contending that conservatives have framed the debate on vital issues more effectively than liberals. A…	OL1953000W
Right moves	Jason M. Stahl	" ... Traces the progression of think tanks from the rise of a broad conservative movement and the turn away from New Deal liberalism, their expanding role in advancing a neoconservative foreign poli…	OL19720514W