The Angry Right: Why Conservatives Keep Getting It Wrong

by S.T. Joshi and Dashka Slater

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591024633
• ISBN13: 9781591024637
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Anger management courses won't help

Joshi posits that while conservatives can win elections, they look around and see a stalled agenda. Phyllis Schaffley was not able to convince women that they did not want equal pay for equal work, and William F. Buckley has not seen the end of the USA with the dawn of integrated schools. Schaffley has to suffer seeing the now ubiquitous title "Ms." which she had ridiculed, belittled and condemned. Contemporary conservatives, who's faces grace the book's cover, are a lot more shrill than their predecessors ever were. Joshi posits that this is because they see an America that is not like the one THEY have determined that it "should" be. Joshi spends most of the text demonstrating "why conservatives keep getting it wrong." By quoting the writings of conservatives, he shows the missing logic of their positions. As contemporary conservative book titles suggest ("How to talk to a liberal if you must"; "Liberalism is a disease"), their program has little to do with policy and more to do with being against liberals. The need to shout and smear, he suggests, results from frustration in seeing the institutionalization and cultural acceptance of the liberal causes they fought against (civil rights, availability of abortion, environmental protection laws, to name a few) and an inability to articulate a logical argument. He deals with a neglected (I think) issue, as to why, in public debate, "morals" are always about sex. Greed, corruption, etc., are never linked to immorality in the public discourse. Joshi discusses reasons why. As I finished this book, I started the John Dean book, "Conservatives without Conscience", which adds more perspective.

Getting the Right Absolutely Right

This book was a total delight! With easy-to-read skill and erudition, Joshi peels the skin from the conservative media's main figures, his excoriations done in a pleasantly polite manner. The author does us the service of giving the historical perspective on the conservative movement, particularly the background promulgations of Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley Jr., analyzing for us their long record of discredited positions on the issues of our times. His chapter on "The Traitor Police" (Ann Coulter, Michael Savage and Sean Hannity) makes for delicious reading, not only for the bizarre and hysterical rantings of this dubious troika, but for Joshi's exceedingly dry wit in dealing with their extremism. This is one of the best political books ever, and a stone-cold necessity for anyone who wants to understand what's ticking in America.

If you've ever wanted insights into the ideals of the conservative mind, THE ANGRY RIGHT tells all.

It's a fact that Republications have enjoyed unprecedented power for the last eight years: so why is the right so angry? THE ANGRY RIGHT: WHY CONSERVATIVES KEEP GETTING IT WRONG uses twelve leading conservatives to document the roots of rate by the right, which believes conservatives have strayed from the righteous path. The writings of conservative icons here document this shift, using works from William F. Buckley, Russell Kirk and nine others. If you've ever wanted insights into the ideals of the conservative mind, THE ANGRY RIGHT tells all. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

S.T. Joshi Gets It Right

In a well-written, well-researched history of modern conservative opinionmakers, Mr. Joshi thoroughly debunks with surgical precision the assertions of a dozen conservative icons of the last fifty years. Every progressive in America should read this book.