Crisis of Conservatism?: The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, and American Politics After Bush

by Joel D. Aberbach and Gillian Peele

Book Overview

Crisis of Conservatism? assesses the status of American conservatism--its politics, its allies in the Republican Party, and the struggle for the soul of the conservative movement. This struggle became especially acute with the controversial policies of the Bush administration and Republican losses in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

The book's contributors, a broad array of leading scholars of conservatism, identify a range of tensions in the conservative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199764026
• ISBN13: 9780199764020
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"