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The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution (Critical Issues in American History)

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Once again, Greg Schneider has produced a valuable collection to the small cottage indutry of works on modern American conservatism. In a brief (262 pages or thereabouts) survey of the last century Schneider highlights some of the major trends that produced a modern American conservatism over the last 50 years, putting it all into a broader perspective. One can only hope that this work appears on more and more college library shelves as a needed balance to the prevalence of liberal works on American history and politics.

I detest conservative Republicanism, so a wave of nausea hit me as I discovered the book was donated to the library by our state senator. Surprise! This is not an opinionated diatribe. It is the work of a professional historian. There is hardly a whiff of opinion. It is a careful recitation of what conservatives thought and did right up to the Iraq war.

The biggest surprise was that in 1998 PNAC wrote a letter to President Clinton advocating regime change in Iraq. I'm 70 and I enjoyed this coherent review of what happened.