Conservatives Without Conscience

Author : John W. Dean
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201371
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatives Without Conscience written by John W. Dean and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of his national bestseller Worse Than Watergate, John Dean takes a critical look at the current conservative movement In Conservatives Without Conscience, John Dean places the conservative movement's inner circle of leaders in the Republican Party under scrutiny. Dean finds their policies and mind- set to be fundamentally authoritarian, and as such, a danger to democracy. By examining the legacies of such old-line conservatives as J. Edgar Hoover, Spiro Agnew, and Phyllis Schlafly and of such current figures as Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and leaders of the Religious Right, Dean presents an alarming record of abuses of power. His trenchant analysis of how conservatism has lost its bearings serves as a chilling warning and a stirring inspiration to safeguard constitutional principles.

Author : Peter Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847285252
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberals Without Logic written by Peter Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2006, John W. Dean published "Conservatives Without Conscience," a book charging the Bush administration with using religious morality and propaganda-like tactics to promote big business interests and silence alternate perspectives at the expense of the nation's constitutional foundations. In this book, Peter Thomas explains why "Conservatives Without Conscience" is not persuasive.

Author : John Wesley Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781415929988
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatives Without Conscience written by John Wesley Dean and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, American electoral politics has been transformed by the rise of a newly energized conservative movement-- a movement that is highly organized, extremely well-funded, and confidently ambitious in achieving its goals for both the government and the culture. The result has been not only a radical shift in the program and politics of the Republican Party, but a decisive change in the nature of political discourse, which has become disturbingly confrontational, vicious, and hypocritical ... Once again Dean employs his distinctive knowledge and understanding of Washington politics and process to examine the conservative movement's current inner circle of leaders, its policies, and most notably, its mindset, which he identifies as fundamentally authoritarian in nature.--Container.

Author : BusinessNews Publishing,
Publisher : Primento
ISBN 13 : 2511000490
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary: Conservatives Without Conscience written by BusinessNews Publishing, and published by Primento. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-read summary of John Dean's book: “Conservatives Without Conscience”. This complete summary of "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John Dean, former White House Counsel for President Nixon, presents his argument that radical elements are destroying the foundations of American democracy and that the current right-wing authoritarian thinking could lead to a version of American fascism. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand American conservatism and the religious right wing • Expand your knowledge of American politics To learn more, read "Conservatives Without Conscience" and discover the threat to democracy posed by the current far-right religious members of the Republican Party.

Author : John Dean
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199348
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authoritarian Nightmare written by John Dean and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Trump may be gone from the White House, but the 75 million people who voted for him are still out there . . . Updated to reflect election results, this is a look at the entirety of the Trump phenomenon, using psychological and social science studies, as well as polling analyses, to understand Donald Trump's followers, and what they will do now that he's gone. To find out, John Dean, of Watergate fame, joined with Bob Altemeyer, a professor of psychology with a unique area of expertise: Authoritarianism. Relying on social science findings and psychological diagnostic tools (such as the "Power Mad Scale" and the "Con Man Scale"), and including exclusive research and analysis from the Monmouth University Polling Institute (one of America's most respected public opinion research foundations), the authors provide us with an eye-opening understanding of the Trump phenomenon — and how it may not go away, whatever becomes of Trump.

Author : Jeff Flake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399592911
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conscience of a Conservative written by Jeff Flake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”—David Brooks, in his New York Times column In a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. Dear Reader, I am a conservative. I believe that there are limits to what government can and should do, that there are some problems that government cannot solve, and that human initiative is best when left unfettered, free from government interference or coercion. I believe that these ideas, tested by time, offer the most freedom and best outcomes in the lives of the most people. But today, the American conservative movement has lost its way. Given the state of our politics, it is no exaggeration to say that this is an urgent matter. The Republican party used to play to a broader audience, one that demanded that we accomplish something. But in this era of dysfunction, our primary accomplishment has been constructing the argument that we’re not to blame. We have decided that it is better to build and maintain a majority by using the levers of power rather than the art of persuasion and the battle of ideas. We’ve decided that putting party over country is okay. There are many on both sides of the aisle who think this a good model on which to build a political career—destroying, not building. And all the while, our country burns, our institutions are undermined, and our values are compromised. We have become so estranged from our principles that we no longer know what principle is. America is not just a collection of transactions. America is also a collection of ideas and values. And these are our values. These are our principles. They are not subject to change, owing to political fashion or cult of personality. I believe that we desperately need to get back to the rigorous, fact-based arguments that made us conservatives in the first place. We need to realize that the stakes are simply too high to remain silent and fall in line. That is why I have written this book and am taking this stand. —Jeff Flake

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759508690
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Friends written by John le Carré and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Mundy is a down-at-the-heels tour guide in southern Germany, dodging creditors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once bravely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of an old German student friend, radical, and onetime fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only, answer to life-this time in the form of a mysterious billionaire philanthropist named Dimitri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of poverty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going to the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle Eastern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of starry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than Sasha's, Mundy is inclined to think it could. In Absolute Friends, John le Carre delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the novel le Carre fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the ages.

Author : Dean, John W.
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1742734847
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worse than Watergate written by Dean, John W. and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John W. Dean
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101202599
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Government written by John W. Dean and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy One of today's most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of government no longer operate as intended by the Constitution? Stepping back to assess three decades of nearly continuous Republican rule, John W. Dean surveys the damage done to the three branches of government and traces their decline through the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II. Speaking to what the average moderate citizen can do to combat extremism, authoritarianism, incompetence, and the Republicans' deliberate focus on polarizing social issues, Broken Government is a must-have book for voters this election year.

Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1429900326
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's the Matter with Kansas? written by Thomas Frank and published by Picador. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"—the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"—how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union—Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatism—the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combat—and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis—and funny to boot—What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los Angeles Times