The Corrosion of Conservatism
Why I Left the Right
Published on 9. October 2018
256 pages
978-1-63149-568-7 (ISBN)
Description
A "must read” (Joe Scarborough) by a New York Times- best- selling author, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents a necessary defense of American democracy.
Praised on publication as "one of the most impressive and unfl inching diagnoses of the pathologies in Republican politics that led to Trump's rise” (Jonathan Chait, New York), The Corrosion of Conservatism documents a president who has traduced every norm and the rise of a nascent centrist movement to counter his assault on democracy. In this "admirably succinct and trenchant” (Charles Reichman, San Francisco Chronicle) exhumation of conservatism, Max Boot tells the story of an ideological dislocation so shattering that it caused his courageous transformation from Republican foreign policy advisor to celebrated anti- Trump columnist. From recording his political coming- of- age as a young émigré from the Soviet Union to describing the vitriol he endured from his erstwhile conservative colleagues, Boot mixes "lively memoir with sharp analysis” (William Kristol) from its Reagan-era apogee to its corrosion under Donald Trump.More details
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Max Boot, historian and foreign-policy analyst, is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post. His New York Times bestseller The Road Not Taken was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Prologue: November 8, 2016
- 1. The Education of a Conservative
- 2. The Career of a Conservative
- 3. The Surrender
- 4. The Chaos President
- 5. The Cost of Capitulation
- I. Racism
- II. Nativism
- III. Collusion
- IV. The Rule of Law
- V. "Fake News"
- VI. Ethics
- VII. Fiscal Irresponsibility
- VIII. The End of the Pax Americana
- 6. The Trump Toadies
- 7. The Origins of Trumpism
- Epilogue: The Vital Center
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
