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Book SynopsisA Forbes columnist discusses the ideological breakdown of the Republican Party, its failure to diminish the deficit or the size of government in twelve years of control, and outlines a plan for renewal through a return to basic issues.Part reportage, part manifesto, Dead Right leads readers on a witty and opinionated tour through the chaos of post-Reagan conservatism. It explains why the Religious Right is a phony menace , why President Reagan failed to eliminate even one major spending program , why the 1992 Republican convention, originally conceived as a cunning ploy, backfired , and much more. David Frum analyzes the conservative movement''s turn away from the economic issues that dominated the 1980s to a new preoccupation with race, ethnicity, and sex. He explains how and why conservatives decided to stop fighting Big Government and start using it. And he warns that a conservatism that loses its anti-Big Government faith is doomed to futility. Dead Right dissects the new c
Table of Contents* Athwart History * Houston: Wall-to-Wall Ugly * The Failure of the Reagan Gambit * Optimists: Wrong but Wromantic * Moralists: The Threat from Above * Nationalists: Whose Country Is It Anyway? * The Pseudo-Menace of the Religious Right * 1996
