Description: Product DescriptionThe 1992 presidential election campaign showed just how deep were the divisions within the Republican party. In this provocative collection of essays, Washington Times columnist Samuel Francis argues that the victory of the Democratic party marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era but the failure of American conservatism.Francis cites a number of reasons for the failure. After contributing to Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in 1981, leaders of the New Right divorced themselves from popular discontents and pursued democratic globalism, a policy inconsistent with the theories of the Old Right. The success of the "managerial revolution " - the shift of power from the bourgeois elite to a managerial or corporate elite - spawned a new kind of conservative, the neoconservative. Francis shows that by the end of the Reagan administration, neoconservatism was the dominant faction of the American Right. While the Old Right had sought smaller government, the Reagan a…
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EAN: 9780826209078
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Publication Year: 1993
Book Title: Beautiful Losers : Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Genre: Political Science, History
Author: Samuel Francis
Format: Hardcover
