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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2734
EAN: 9780385519434
ISBN: 0385519435
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Sales Rank: 10222
Studio: Doubleday
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“Memo to John McCain: Please, please READ THIS BOOK. It can help you win the election and guide Republicans in shaping the political future.
Memo to Democrats: Don’t read this book. It's going to be THE political book of 2008. Republicans will be better off if you choose to ignore it.”
--William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard
In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and needs of working-class voters.
Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. Blending history, analysis, and fresh, often controversial recommendations, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that it is time to move beyond the Reagan legacy and the mind-set of the current Republican power structure.
In a concise examination of recent political trends, the authors show that the Democrats' cultural liberalism makes their party inherently hostile to the interests and values of the working class. But on a host of issues, today's Republican Party lacks a message that speaks to their economic aspirations. Grand New Party offers a new direction—a conservative vision of a limited-but-active government that tackles the threats to working-class prosperity and to the broader American Dream.
With specific proposals covering such hot-button topics as immigration, health care, and taxes, Grand New Party will shake up the Right, challenge the Left, and force both sides to confront and adapt to the changing political landscape.
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Rating:  - Must Read No Matter Elephant or Donkey
The book is a smooth read that is brainy yet down to earth at the same time.Lots of facts, plus some stats and demographics, but they don't overwhelm the reader.It is noted that working class voters comprise the "battleground" where most electoral campaigns are fought and decided, and the authors point out that GOP'ers must address the key issue of economic insecurity for this constituency that has been taken for granted by the Bushies since 9/11. Of course, addressing "economic insecurity" or ... Read More
Rating: - He had me by page 7.
Douthat argues that "'social issues' from abortion and marriage law to the death penalty and immigration, aren't just red herrings distracting the working class from their economic struggles, as liberals have insisted for the better part of forty years. Rather, they're at the root of working-class insecurity. Safe streets, successful marriages, cultural solidarity, and vibrant religious and civic institutions make working-class Americans more likely to be wealthy, healthy and upwardly mobile" (p ... Read More
Rating:  - Very readable, with some issues over the methods and citation
This book is a combination of a history of the past five decades from the writers' perspectives (specifically focusing on the domestic issues), and a prescription for the Republican Party to re-win the votes of working class voters, whom the writers consider crucial to winning electoral victories and helping American. It takes the somewhat unusual tack (for conservatives) of praising Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs, which they argue were designed to promote social stability and self-reliance, ... Read More
Rating: - bordering on fraudulent
well, not this book actually, but a related book by Salam's colleague Parag Khanna titled The Second World.
Some of the various, and numerous, factual errors that riddle the book are relatively trivial, but suggest serious sloppiness and disregard for getting facts right. For example, Yugoslavia was not part of Warsaw pact, as Khanna states. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was appointed to office in 1992 by Boris Yeltsin, and not by Vladimir Putin. Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Albania are not ... Read More
Rating:  - Neoconservatism Has Failed
So the solution is become more like Democrats?Again, and even more so in the future?
We've already had 8 years of neoconservatism and it has been a miserable failure, thanks very much.It's given true conservatism a bad name, and it will take years to recover from the neocons' many fiascoes and the guilt by association that conservatism is suffering from.
I suggest the neocons go back from whence they came -- to the Democrat Party.The GOP has a coalition to rebuild and a Republic ... Read More
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