Conservatives Without Conscience - Hardcover

Dean, John W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670037745 ISBN 13: 9780670037742

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2006

Synopsis

The author of the best-selling Worse Than Watergate denounces practices among political conservatives, charging the current 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. 250,000 first printing.

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Review:

In Conservatives Without Conscience, John Dean, who served as White House counsel under Richard Nixon and then helped to break the Watergate scandal with his testimony before the Senate, takes a vivid and analytical look at a Republican Party that has changed drastically from the conservative movement that he joined in the mid-1960s as an admirer of Senator Barry Goldwater. Listen to our interview with Dean as part of our July 13 Amazon Wire podcast (along with interviews with Garrison Keillor and Henry Rollins) to hear how he originally conceived of the book with the late Senator Goldwater, and the social science research he drew on to put together his portrait of the "conservative authoritarian." (You can subscribe to regular Wire podcasts here.) And take a look at Dean's choices for the best books to read on the American presidency in our Grownup School feature.

About the Author:

John Dean was White House legal counsel to President Nixon for a thousand days. Dean also served as chief minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee and as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670037745
• ISBN 13: 9780670037742
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288