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No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America Hardcover – October 31, 2010

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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press (October 1, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674046773
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674046771
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsCynicism is the name of the game
By Jim Crooks on October 29, 2010
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Courtwright brillantly describes and analyzes the character of political conservatism over the past 40 years. It promised a principled game on social and economic issues, but in office played by different rules. High spending Republican presidents contradicted their economic promises while expanding executive authority in multiple areas. Meanwhile religious conservatives continue to wait for more than crumbs from the Republican tables. (Self disclosure: I was a colleague of the author at the University of NOrth Florida a decade ago.)
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By E. Diemente on January 8, 2011
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This book is a good read. It is thoroughly researched with excellent notes at the end serving as a bibliography. Courtright juggles between two subjects, the cultural changes in each decade and the political relationship which accompanied them since the Roosevelt presidency.This book would serve well as a reference when one wants to review a cultural era, a political movement or a politicians influence. (Sprinkled throughout are scandalous details of the lives of cultural and political leaders.)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA history of fifty years of the Culture War
By Mark R. Jorgensen on June 11, 2011
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An intelligent, erudite, and at times witty commentary on the Culture War of the last fifty years. The author has a conversational style, and thus it is an easy read for a history book -- but it was like having a conversation with someone standing behind a curtain. His use of the historical evidence and excellent analysis are in some sections simply brilliant -- I learned things I had "known" but not appreciated -- and I know the history of this period quite well! Courtwright is able to succinctly summarize though not slight some very complicated strands of this history -- many other authors would have used more wordage and provided less explanation. The more I read and re-read this book the greater my appreciation for what the author has accomplished.

Courtwright writes mostly as an observer though his values are fairly clear to discern. I found myself more in agreement with his observations than not, though I wasn't always pleased to do so. There is the occasional omission of relevant detail which might alter his more general points but, overall, I found this history to be fairer than many others by academic authors.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAfter four decades of frustration, conservative anger has again become a political force
By ROROTOKO on November 19, 2010
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"No Right Turn" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. The book interview of Professor Courtwright ran here as the cover feature on November 1, 2010.
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1.0 out of 5 starsA dry and simplistic read
By Jonny707 on July 22, 2011
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I am not a Conservative and not a Liberal though I would guess my positions on most things these days are closer to certain Conservative views. I say that as a kind of criticism of this book which aims to put all Conservatives in one basket, and all Liberals in another. In other words something in me opposes this simplistic way of operation, and the presumption that one side is simply all right, and the other side always wrong and stupid.
Isn't it possible that the Liberals are more right on some issues, and the Conservatives more right on others?
On the whole as it is biased with a conservitive agenda telling me what and how to think,I would not accept it all blindly . Each person has to think through every issue by themselves. And usually when we do think we do not come into total agreement with others but find areas in which we think and believe differently.
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