The Continuing Crisis: As Chronicled for Four Decades by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. [Paperback]

Jr. R. Emmett Tyrrell (Author), Louis Hatchett (Editor)

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Publication Date: May 16, 2009

A compilation of The American Spectator's hilarious monthly column, "The Continuing Crisis," as chronicled for four decades by founder and editor-in-chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. His books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, The Liberal Crack-Up, The Conservative Crack-Up, Public Nuisances, The Future that Doesn't Work: Social Democracy's Failure in Britain and most recently, Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House and The Clinton Crack-Up.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Beaufort Books (May 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825305942
• ISBN-13: 978-0825305948
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #544,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Permanent Crisis, July 8, 2009

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This review is from: The Continuing Crisis: As Chronicled for Four Decades by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (Paperback)

We see a similar semantic erudition in writers like William F. Buckley, Jr., while the caustic Mencken tradition is kept alive by the frolicsome R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. of the American Spectator."
"Frolicsome" may not be quite the term of choice. But Aram Bakshian, Jr., former director of White House speechwriting for Ronald Reagan, and a widely published writer and student of the language, believes the point is well taken. "With The American Spectator," Bakshian says, "Bob Tyrrell, much like Bill Buckley, has played a Promethean role, standing virtually alone and creating something unique. And in the Continuing Crisis, especially, Tyrrell is the master of a particular form--taking broken shards of silliness, deviance, hypocrisy, crime and treason, shaping them into Erasman examples of human folly, and doing so with style and flow. The Continuing Crisis is Tyrrell at his best, and that best is just as good today as it was in 1970.