{"product_id":"9781476763804","title":"Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to Trump and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Americans Hate Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling and “notably fair-minded” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), story of the GOP’s fracturing—from the 1964 Goldwater takeover to the Trump spectacle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy the Right Went Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e offers an “up to the moment” (\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e) historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American conservatism and the Republican Party took a wrong turn when they adopted Barry Goldwater’s worldview during and after the 1964 campaign. The radicalism of today’s conservatism is not the product of the Tea Party, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e columnist E.J. Dionne writes. The Tea Partiers are the true heirs to Goldwater ideology. The purity movement did more than drive moderates out of the Republican Party—it beat back alternative definitions of conservatism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSince 1968, no conservative administration—not Nixon not Reagan not two Bushes—could live up to the rhetoric rooted in the Goldwater movement that began to reshape American politics fifty years ago. The collapse of the Nixon presidency led to the rise of Ronald Reagan, the defeat of George H.W. Bush, to Newt Gingrich’s revolution. Bush initially undertook a partial modernization, preaching “compassionate conservatism” and a “Fourth Way” to Clinton’s “Third Way.” Conservatives quickly defined him as an advocate of “big government” and not conservative enough on spending, immigration, education, and Medicare. A return to the true faith was the only prescription on order. The result was the Tea Party, which Dionne says, was as much a reaction to Bush as to Obama.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe state of the Republican party, controlled by the strictest base, is diminished, Dionne writes. It has become white and older in a country that is no longer that. It needs to come back to life for its own health and that of the country’s, and in \u003ci\u003eWhy the Right Went Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e, Dionne “expertly delineates where we are and how we got there” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e)—and how to return.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43085078528061,"sku":"9781476763804","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781476763804_p0.jpg?v=1775253308","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781476763804","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}