Conservatize Me

Author : John Moe
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060854014
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatize Me written by John Moe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? Is America still a place where it's possible to change someone's mind and get them to cross over to the other side of the ideological fence? Is it possible to do that to yourself? For John Moe, it simply wasn't enough to just read the Wall Street Journal editorial page a little more often or buy a framed picture of Barry Goldwater. He went in all the way, drinking deep from all aspects of the conservative universe to see if he could become that which he encountered. Raised in a family of proud left-wingers (except for his late father, whose fondness for Nixon he is forced to confront) and living in deeply liberal Seattle most of his life, Moe set out to determine if what we believe is based on environment or actual conviction. Was there actually a conservative trapped inside him all along, just yearning to be set free? Moe puts himself on a strict conservative regimen: He resets his radio dials from NPR to Rush Limbaugh, goes head-to-head with some of today's most influential conservative thinkers for a series of "conversion sessions," makes pilgrimages to the Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon museums, spends the Fourth of July in the most Bush-friendly county in the country, attempts to set his inner Charlton Heston loose at a gun range, flies cross-country to be nearer to Toby Keith, and test-drives the type of massive gas-guzzling SUV so feared and loathed by liberals (and becomes uncomfortably fond of it). Through it all he tries to maintain positive standing with his lefty wife and young but already liberal kids, including their four-year-old son, who joins the Sierra Club. These are but a few of the adventures chronicled in Moe's hilarious and timely first book. Conservatize Me will strike a powerful chord with millions of disgruntled Americans ready for a fresh, humorous, and highly entertaining look at our country's political landscape. Moe's sharply observed prose will have enormous appeal for anyone interested in a new perspective on debates that have, for years, preoccupied our country and dominated our bestseller lists. Will Moe end up getting a Dick Cheney tattoo and swearing loyalty to the Christian Coalition? Will he get a Dennis Kucinich tattoo and dedicate his life to cooking vegan food at protest rallies? Read Conservatize Me and find out.

Author : John Moe
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060854027
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatize Me written by John Moe and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue—permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? A lifelong liberal, John Moe was determined to find out. So he reset his radio dials from NPR to Rush Limbaugh, joined some of today's most influential conservative thinkers for a series of "conversion sessions," made pilgrimages to the Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon museums, and spent the Fourth of July in the most Bush-friendly county in the country, in an attempt to discover if there was actually a conservative trapped inside him yearning to be set free. Conservatize Me is a fresh, humorous, and highly entertaining look at our country's political landscape, one that will strike a powerful chord with millions of disgruntled Americans while stimulating the mind and tickling the funny bone.

Author : John Moe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739482568
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatize Me written by John Moe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen to a liberal's mind if he subsisted entirely on conservative media and rhetoric? Political humorist Moe, raised in a family of proud left-wingers and living in deeply liberal Seattle most of his life, sets out to determine if what we believe is based on environment or actual conviction. Moe puts himself on a strict conservative regimen: He resets his radio dials from NPR to Rush Limbaugh, goes head-to-head with some of today's most influential conservative thinkers for a series of "conversion sessions," and through it all tries to maintain positive standing with his lefty wife and young but already liberal kids. A fresh, humorous, and entertaining look at our country's political landscape.--From publisher description.

Author : James E. Person Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813175488
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaginative Conservatism written by James E. Person Jr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Kirk (1918--1994) is renowned worldwide as one of the founders of postwar American conservatism. His 1953 masterpiece, The Conservative Mind, became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in the nation's attitudes toward traditionalism. A prolific author and wise cultural critic, Kirk kept up a steady stream of correspondence with friends and colleagues around the globe, yet none of his substantial body of personal letters has ever been published -- letters as colorful and intelligent as the man himself. In Imaginative Conservatism, James E. Person Jr. presents one hundred and ninety of Kirk's most provocative and insightful missives. Covering a period from 1940 to 1994, these letters trace Kirk's development from a shy, precocious young man to a public intellectual firm in his beliefs and generous with his time and resources when called upon to provide for refugees, the homeless, and other outcasts. This carefully annotated and edited collection includes correspondence between Kirk and figures such as T.S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Ray Bradbury, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charlton Heston, Nikolai Tolstoy, Wendell Berry, Richard Nixon, and Herbert Hoover, among many others. Kirk's conservatism was not primarily political but moral and imaginative, focusing always on the relationship of the human soul in community with others and with the transcendent. Beyond the wealth of autobiographical information that this collection affords, it offers thought-provoking wisdom from one of the twentieth century's most influential interpreters of American politics and culture.

Author : William Joseph Booker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Give Me Liberty Or Give Me War written by William Joseph Booker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Thomas
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492746676
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Me II written by Ben Thomas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second book in Ben Thomas' Sustainable Me series takes a candid look at the environmentally conscious "conservative." There is a conflict that rages within the conservative heart when it comes to the "green" movement. They really want to be green but it would mean crossing party and ideological lines to do so. It's quite the conundrum!The subtitle of this book is “Counterintuitive Conservatism” but it may as well have been “Schizophrenic Conservatism.” Part of the problem for conservatives, Republicans, and evangelical Christians is both as simple as guilt and a penchant for playing with the wrong crowd. The guilt is disobedience to the most basic principles of a Biblical mandate to care for the environment and the wrong crowd is big oil, big farming, and big business. Most of us argue most vehemently when we already know we are wrong and become defensive. We are out of contact with the real environment and become contradictory or antagonistic. This along with complete denial is descriptive of conservative, Christian America.Growing up in the south as a conservative evangelical the author speaks frankly and personally about environmental issues and his strong feelings that most conservatives fail to take any initiative when it comes to protection and preservation of the environment. Issues such as climate change, global warming, our failing biodiversity, energy and toxins are comparatively discussed. Issues are defined and deliberated, solutions and points of view are given and conclusions are drawn.A frank look is taken at the “players” in the environmental game and the views of the world's top four religions are presented with an in depth look at the lack of response of Christians to clear instructions in the Bible to care for God's creation.The book concludes with an expository and often humorous look at his life as an evangelical, conservative environmentalist. From poverty to success, from sustainability to elite disdain and back again Thomas traces the life of a true, though often hindered environmentalist. Just how does a fundamentalist hippie appear and act? Let's just say that liberals are wary and conservative weary with your juxtaposition of politics, religion and environmentalism. You will find insightful information, honest perspectives with no quarter given, and learn of a great heritage of sustainability and counterintuitive conservatism. This volume along with the first book in the series, “Sustainable Me: Tips and Terms for the Environmentally Conscious” will make valuable additions to your home or digital library.

Author : Bruce Frohnen
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Conservatism written by Bruce Frohnen and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the last half century. More than a decade in the makingand more than half a million words in length?this informative and entertaining encyclopedia contains substantive entries of up to two thousand words on those persons, events, organizations, and concepts of major importance to postwar American conservatism. Its contributors include iconic patriarchs of the conservative and libertarian movements, including Russell Kirk, M. E. Bradford, Gerhart Niemeyer, Stephen J. Tonsor, Peter Stanlis, and Murray Rothbard; celebrated scholars such as George H. Nash, Peter Augustine Lawler, Allan Carlson, Daniel J. Mahoney, Wilfred McClay, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, George W. Carey, and Paul Gottfried; well-known authors, including George Weigel, Lee Edwards, Richard Brookhiser, and Gregory Wolfe; and influential movement activists and leaders such as M. Stanton Evans, Morton Blackwell, Leonard Liggio, and Llewellyn Rockwell. Ranging from abortion to Zoll, Donald Atwell, and written from viewpoints as various as those which have informed the postwar conservative movement itself, the encyclopedia's more than 600 entries will orient readers of all kinds to the people and ideas that have given shape to contemporary American conservatism. This long-awaited volume is not to be missed.

Author : Nicol C. Rae
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765634504
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservative Reformers written by Nicol C. Rae and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998-05-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicol Rae's engaging account of the Republican revolutionaries' freshman term in Congress persuasively demonstrates that the precepts set forth by Madison in Federalist 10 and 51 are still in force in our remarkably stable political system. The 73 Republican freshmen who entered the House of Representatives after the 1994 election were a well-organized group with majority status and a commitment to change. This book examines the extent to which they were successful in redirecting policy and reforming the institutions of representative government--and the extent to which those same institutions moderated, and even frustrated, efforts to introduce radical, rapid--indeed revolutionary--change. Contrasts are drawn both with the role of the Republican freshmen in the Senate and with the power of the President as manifested in the 1995-96 budget battle. The book is based on interviews conducted by the author when he was an APSA Congressional Fellow in the offices of Rep. George P. Radanovich, president of the freshman Republican class, and Sen. Thad Cochran, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.

Author : Richard Jules Valvano
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 148091973X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Conservative: An American Hero written by Richard Jules Valvano and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Conservative: An American Hero By Richard Jules Valvano Can a powerful piece of fiction undo the negative stereotyping cast on a group of individuals and make them noble and heroic? In this riveting and explosive novel, the author is betting it will. For years, the black left has cast politically conservative African-Americans as insensitive traitors to the Civil Rights Movement. They are seen as unhinged thinkers who dare to question liberal conventional wisdom concerning black matters and issues. They are often depicted as “Uncle Toms” and whites in dark skin who actually want blacks to be passive porters, shoe-shiners and doormats in a white society. The Black Conservative: An American Hero not only challenges these stereotypes, it does it by way of an engaging thriller filled with fascinating characters. The entire effect is meant to give black conservatives a human element, an insight into their thinking, and a culmination of a renewed and invigorating image of them.

Author : Jonathan Chait
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618685400
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Con written by Jonathan Chait and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nationally syndicated columnist furnishes an eye-opening exposé that reveals how a small cadre of economic hucksters, obsessed with radical ideas that benefit no one but themselves and their business interests, have seized control of the American political system to dictate the nation's policies and American agenda.