Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP - Hardcover

Gold, Victor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402208413 ISBN 13: 9781402208416

Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc, 2007

Synopsis

After four decades as a Republican insider, Victor Gold reveals how the holy-rollers and the Neo-Cons have destroyed the GOP. Now he's fighting to get his party back.

As a man who served as press aide to Barry Goldwater and speechwriter and senior advisor to George H. W. Bush (in addition to coauthoring his autobiography), Victor Gold is absolutely furious that the Neo-Cons and their strange bedfellows, the Evangelical Right, have stolen his party from him. Now he is bringing the fight to them.

Invasion of the Party Snatchers is a blistering critique not only of the Bush-Cheney administration but also of the Republican Congress. Gold is ready to tell all about the war being waged for the soul of the GOP, including the elder Bush's opinion of his son's work domestically and abroad, the significance of the newly elected Congress, and how Goldwater would have reacted to it all. Gold reveals, among other explosive disclosures, how George W. has been manipulated by his vice president and secretary of defense to become, in Lenin's famous phrase, a "useful idiot" for Neo-Conservative warmongers and Theo-Conservative religious fanatics.

Although there have been other books by dissident Republicans attacking the Bush-Cheney administration's betrayal of conservative principles, none have been by an insider whose political credentials include inner-circle status with Barry Goldwater and George H. W. Bush.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Victor Gold wants his party back.
Gold is the former press aide to Barry Goldwater, the founder of the conservative movement, as well as the former speechwriter and senior advisor for George H. W. Bush. And he is incensed that the Neo-Cons and their strange bedfellows, the Evangelical Right, have stolen his party and betrayed the ideals of the conservative cause. Now heís fighting back.

After four decades as a Republican insider, Gold is ready to tell all about the war being waged for the soul of the GOP, including the elder Bushís opinion of his sonís work domestically and abroad, the significance of the newly elected Congress, and how Goldwater would have reacted to it all.

In this critique of the Bush administration, Gold reveals, among other explosive disclosures, how George W. has been used and manipulated by the vice president. His detailing of the presidentís puppet-like role amongst Neo- and Theo-Conservatives is utterly chilling.

?Victor Gold served as deputy press secretary to Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign, press secretary to Vice President Spiro Agnew from 1970 to 1974, and speechwriter and senior advisor to George H. W. Bush in the 1980s. He is a personal friend of the Bush family and many other prominent politicians. He collaborated with George H. W. on his autobiography Looking Forward, coauthored a work of satirical fiction, The Body Politic, with Lynne Cheney, and is a national correspondent for Washingtonian magazine. He lives with his wife Dale and two contrarian conservative cats in Fairfax, Virginia.

From the Back Cover

Victor Gold is furious. Here's why.
"I read Vic Gold's Invasion of the Party Snatchers with a certain degree of shock-and-awe. Like his political mentor Barry Goldwater, Gold pulls no verbal punches in telling the story of how the Bush-Cheney White House has made a mockery of the conservative values it claims to uphold-and which Vic continues to uphold."
-Frank Mankiewicz, former press secretary to Robert Kennedy
and George McGovern's campaign manager
"Victor Gold, a sardonic wordsmith for Republican leaders from Barry Goldwater to the senior George Bush, unleashes a bitter yet comic blend of ferocity and ridicule at the neo-conservatives and theocrats who have taken over his party. In a lively review of the downward course it has traveled over the last six years, Gold takes dead aim at George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of their cast, and their GOP enablers in Congress, for the party's plight and asks: 'What would Barry do?' Then he answers his own question with Goldwater candor and abandon."
-Jules Witcover, author of Very Strange Bedfellows:
The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew

About this edition

• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1402208413
• ISBN 13: 9781402208416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246