Disrobed and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more

Buy Used
Used - Good See details
$4.25 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
Kindle Edition
 
   
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts
 
 
Start reading Disrobed on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts [Hardcover]

Mark W. Smith (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)


Available from these sellers.


Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition --  
Hardcover --  
Paperback --  
Audio, CD $25.95  
Unknown Binding --  
Audible Audio Edition, Unabridged $17.95 or Free with Audible 30-day free trial

Book Description

June 13, 2006
ATTENTION, CONSERVATIVES

Forget everything you think you know about the courts—and arm yourselves with this brand-new, urgently needed battle plan to defeat the Left’s legal assault on America.

How to Bring the Reagan Revolution to America's Courts . . . FINALLY

With the Harriet Miers fiasco a distant memory and John Roberts and Samuel Alito sitting on the Supreme Court, conservatives can finally stop worrying about the courts, right?

Wrong. Dead wrong.

America’s courts, legal culture, and law schools remain solidly in the Left’s camp. Decades of liberal legal precedents fill volumes of law tomes. Absent a sweeping change—precisely what bestselling author Mark W. Smith calls for in Disrobed—liberals will ruthlessly exploit their dominant position in the law to continue advancing their radical agenda, as they have for the past seventy years.

Smith, a nationally recognized attorney, lays out an aggressive new battle plan to thwart the liberal assault on America by turning the courts into allies of the conservative movement. Be warned, Disrobed is not for the fainthearted. Smith implores conservatives: Toss out practically everything you think you know about courts, judges, and American law—because it’s naive, anachronistic, and self-defeating.

Fearlessly challenging the conventional conservative wisdom, Disrobed reveals:

• Why conservatives must immediately embrace—not decry—judicial activism

• A bold new model for finding strong conservative judges—behold the “Judicial Reagan”

• Why litmus tests, so often vilified, represent the only way to pick reliable conservative judges

• How to get sitting judges to “evolve” (finally!) to the right

• How the Right can sue more to advance the conservative agenda—on guns, taxes, immigration, the right to life, you name it

• How conservatives can turn liberals’ favorite court rulings against them

• The hard truth that who wins in the courts often depends more on politics and ideology than on the rule of law

Smith reminds us that courts, judges, and lawyers need not be enemies of the Right, and can even serve as valuable allies in the war against liberalism. But as his groundbreaking book shows, conservatives must force this change by taking swift action. Disrobed issues a call to arms to all conservatives, revealing that the courts are far too important to be left to the devices of academics, lawyers, and politicians.

“Conservatives,” Smith writes, “must accept—and adapt our strategies to—the reality of the modern law, even when the truth is uncomfortable. Otherwise the conservative political agenda and the American way of life will keep getting destroyed—legal case by legal case—in the courts.”

Also available as an eBook

Editorial Reviews

Review

Praise for Mark W. Smith and his New York Times bestseller The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

“Mark Smith is one of the fastest-rising legal stars in the country.” —Ann Coulter

“Author Mark W. Smith has come out with all guns blazing.” —New York Post

“This tome really should be the official handbook of the conservative movement.” —Townhall.com

“Readable, entertaining.” —Dinesh D’Souza, bestselling author of What’s So Great About America

“Don’t go into battle without it.” —David Horowitz, bestselling author of The Professors and Unholy Alliance

About the Author

Mark W. Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Loony Left. A former professor of law, he is a practicing trial attorney who is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. He is also vice president of the New York City chapter of the Federalist Society, the nation’s most prominent conservative legal organization. Smith, a graduate of the New York University School of Law, regularly appears in the national media as a political and legal commentator. He lives in New York City, where he navigates the perils of liberalism with his trusty canine sidekick, Peanut.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Crown Forum (June 13, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307339254
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307339256
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,141,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

 

Customer Reviews

18 Reviews
5 star:
 (12)
4 star:
 (3)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.3 out of 5 stars (18 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking, June 19, 2006
This review is from: Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts (Hardcover)
Whether you agree with Mr. Smith's particular school of conservative thought, he certainly gives the reader a thought provoking roadmap to wrestling the judicial system from the grip of the Left. By pointing out conservatives' shortcomings in playing the judicial game, Smith highlights the fact that the Right has essentially allowed liberals to use conservative dogma (i.e., the notion that judges should be apolitical and interpret the constitution in a nearly robotic fashion) against it.

This is an excellent read for anyone who is interested in challenging their view of judicial activism and who is open-minded enough to at least consider that there may be a more effective way to get things done.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Sun Tzu for the Conservative Movement?, June 15, 2006
By 
This review is from: Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts (Hardcover)
Mark Smith has just written the equivalent of The Art of War for the greatest battle in the American legal system today, control the courts. He shatters all of the entrenched misconceptions, identifying why the the Right is having so much trouble with the courts and how to take the offensive. What do we really need in a judge? How should we handle judicial activism? How do we preserve the American way of life? The answers may surprise you, but they're all there.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a Solution is at Hand!!, June 13, 2006
This review is from: Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts (Hardcover)
Mark Smith brilliantly hones in on the assault on the courts by the secular progressives, and he proposes a new litmus test to weed out leftist judges.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews











Only search this product's reviews



Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums


Listmania!


Create a Listmania! list

So You'd Like to...


Create a guide


Look for Similar Items by Category


Look for Similar Items by Subject