Why I Am a Reagan Conservative - Softcover

Deaver, Michael K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060559772 ISBN 13: 9780060559779

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2006

Synopsis

Former Ronald Reagan advisor and bestselling author Michael K. Deaver gathers together some of the nation's leading thinkers, pundits, and political figures to examine what it means to be a conservative in America today.

As the power of the Republican party continues to grow, a bold new conservative movement is taking form in America. In Why I Am a Reagan Conservative -- a timely and unprecedented new collection about the great man who fueled the fire of the political movement -- some of the most powerful minds in politics and media provide the reasons behind their beliefs, and explain the late Ronald Reagan's impact on the Grand Old Party and the nation.

Among Them

• Bill Frist on ideology's roots in life experience
• Robert D. Novak on how the government is the problem, not the solution
• Bob Dole on a long legacy of timeless values -- from the Depression to post-9/11
• Ken Mehlman on freedom as the foundation of international peace
• Orrin G. Hatch on the Reagan Revolution's success in restoring essential American values
• J. C. Watts, Jr., on Ronald Reagan, who challenged America to become greater

And many more . . .

About this title

About the Author

Former assistant to the president and White House deputy chief of staff during the Reagan administration, Michael K. Deaver is the author of Nancy and the bestselling A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan. He serves as vice chairman, international, for Edelman Worldwide.

From Publishers Weekly

The Gipper's former deputy chief of staff as well as the author of Nancy and A Different Drummer: My 30 Years with Ronald Reagan, the ever-faithful Deaver continues his flame tending with this anthology, which solicits first-person encomiums on the lasting impact of Reaganology. It's a pretty impressive roster: Bill Frist, Bob Dole, Rick Santorum, Henry Hyde, Phil Gramm, Grover Norquist, Orrin Hatch and Chuck Hagel all check in among elected officials; Robert Novak, P.J. O'Rourke, G. Gordon Liddy and Mona Charen among theorists and commentators. Of the 54 contributors, five are women. Very few of the pieces feel fresh; most feel like they've passed through any number of hands before a final vet. The pols write as if on the stump; the wingers as if the fate of the world were hanging in the balance of their every measured phrase: "I am a conservative because all other political philosophies have failed," writes Donald J. Devine, "And the poor, modern world badly needs the vision of a positive future that only conservatism can provide." Progressives will beg to differ, but this book is more about preaching to the choir and rallying the troops than convincing skeptics. (June 24)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060559772
• ISBN 13: 9780060559779
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224