The Right Nation: Conservative Power In America - Hardcover

Micklethwait, John; Wooldridge, Adrian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200203 ISBN 13: 9781594200205

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Evaluates the conservative movement that has swept across America in recent years, contending that conservatives have waged deliberate and effective campaigns against liberal advances, in an analysis that offers insight into right-wing politics and its organizers, representatives, and supporters. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

'The writing is consistently crisp and intelligent, the conclusions balanced...a work of penetrating insight' -- The New York Times

‘Profoundly insightful, and offering heavyweight analysis with an admirable lightness of touch...an excellent historical overview of the...conservative revival' -- Christopher Silvester, The Sunday Times

‘a remarkable achievement...it can perhaps make claim to an extraordinary boast as the best book on modern America in print’ -- Graham Stewart, Spectator

‘an immensely knowledgeable description of the history and beliefs of modern American conservatism’ -- Godfrey Hodgson, The Independent

About the Author:

Both John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge were educated at Oxford and went on to work for The Economist. John Micklethwait has overseen the magazine's Los Angeles and New York bureaus and is now its U.S. editor. Adrian Wooldridge has served as West Coast correspondent, social-policy correspondent, and management editor, and is currently Washington, D.C., correspondent. Together, they have coauthored three books, The Witch Doctors, A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation, and The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1594200203
• ISBN 13: 9781594200205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400