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89/100Author:
Matthew Continetti
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
April 19, 2022
Founding editor of the Washington Free Beacon and American Enterprise Institute Fellow 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.
What The Reviewers Say
... superb.
Continetti seems less interested in the numbers of politics than in its ideas, and the tension between them is the driving force of The Right.
The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism paints a messier, and for that reason far more accurate, portrait of 20th- and 21st-century American conservatism.
Although Continetti steers clear of insider gossip, his description of life in the conservative machine has the feel of an eyewitness account.
