THE COURAGE OF A CONSERVATIVE

James G. Watt, Doug Wead

ISBN 10: 0671528351 / ISBN 13: 9780671528355

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985

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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Foxing on text block edges.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE COURAGE OF A CONSERVATIVE
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671528351
• ISBN 13: 9780671528355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
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Synopsis

Examines the nature of modern conservatism and discusses conservative solutions to America's economic, political, and social problems

Reviews

The reader who expects an analysis of the Reagan administration and Watt's role in it as an illustration of pragmatic modern conservatism will be disappointed. Instead Watt almost totally ignores the current administration and couches his views as if they were the untried remedy for the monolithic evil, liberalism. What results is a mean-spirited diatribe larded with erroneous statements, such as that liberals are arguing for the right of homosexual teachers to advocate their lifestyle to their students, or that today's students are burning their draft cards. Although Watt blames the media for his failure to be recognized as a great Secretary of the Interior, he treats the problems related to all other social issues, including juvenile delinquency, crime, race, abortion, foreign policy, and the trade imbalance, as manifestations of liberal moral degeneracy. Karl Helicher, Wolfsohn Memorial Lib., King of Prussia, Pa.
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