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Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America Hardcover – September 29, 2015

by Morton Kondracke (Author), Fred Barnes (Author)

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sentinel (September 29, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591847435
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591847434
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Ann Corkery

Jack Kemp: "a conservative thinker, a Republican leader and a defender of civil rights".

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2015

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I met Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan the same day. Of course, I was only a young college student that shook their hands, but both leaders deeply impressed me as joyous and larger than life. I also remember as a young girl watching Carter's "malaise" speech. This well researched book by Kondracke and Barnes about Jack Kemp gives a greater understanding of why Kemp was the "most influential Republican who never became president" and how he helped change America. I recommend this book to all parents who want to share with their older children a "model of what politicians ought to be" and to friends who are dismayed by some of the characters who loom large presently on the GOP stage.

Much has been written about the extraordinary importance of the relationship between Reagan and Thatcher and Reagan and John Paul II. The world was transformed in many ways because of these relationships. The Bleeding Heart Conservative delves into the relationship between Reagan and Kemp. Of course, the greatness of the 80s was due largely to the leadership of Reagan, but Kemp provided the economic ideas and tenacious leadership on the Hill. Interestingly, later, there were clear tensions between the White House and Kemp which Reagan recounts in his diary, but Kemp had the courage to fight, with no bitterness or personal animosity, for the ideas he believed in.

This beautifully written book captures Kemp's strengths and his virtues: optimism, leadership, friendship, care for the poor and vulnerable, hard work, intellectual curiousity, encouragement of his children, ability to assemble a talented staff. The book is far from a hagiography and you understand his weaknesses. The most encouraging part of the book for those discouraged about some present aspiring presidential leaders, is the chapter on his legacy where the authors point out present leaders who embrace optimism, civility and transformative ideas: Paul Ryan, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Mike Lee amongst others.

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A good history of supply-side economics

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2016

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A good history of supply-side economics. A good guy but glad he wasn't able to have a greater impact on the country.

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A Responsible, Even-handed Account of a Great Man

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2016

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Grumpy Old Party: 20 Tips on How the Republicans Can Shed Their Anger, Reclaim Their Respectability, and Win Back the White House

The two politicians of my lifetime that I have most admired are Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. In my book Grumpy Old Party (see above), which is a tough-love book to Republicans about how to improve themselves, I devote the Epilogue to Jack Kemp. I was very happy that his son Jimmy endorsed the book on the back cover. I wish Jack had been alive to read it.

In this biography, Messrs. Kondracke and Barnes have done a wonderful job of keeping Jack Kemp's legacy alive, and introducing him to a whole new generation of readers who might have been too young - or not even born yet - when he was recalibrating the American Dream, setting it back on the right track.

Perhaps the best thing about this book is that it is not a glowing ode, but rather a well-written chronicle. It points out the numerous great things Jack Kemp did, which outweigh his shortcomings, also found in the book. It is not a Jack Kemp love-fest, but any fair assessment of Kemp ultimately will demonstrate that the pluses vastly outnumber the minuses.

I urged Jack to run for president every time since his one and only formal attempt, in 1988. His one very kind letter to me in response is included in my book's Epilogue. But this book makes me think that, given how Kodracke and Barnes depict Kemp's foreign policy softening after the end of the Cold War, perhaps he wouldn't have been the right person to lead us in the post-9/11 aftermath?

Or, because Kemp was a walking fountain of innovation, maybe we would have been a lot better off in ways we could not even fathom.

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The Architect and Heir to the Reagan Revolution...

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2017

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I had the honor and privilege of knowing and working for Jack Kemp. I've never reviewed a book on Amazon and it's fair to say I'm a bit biased on the subject, which is why I hesitated to review it long after I read it. That said, my hope is that in the current political climate people will read this book and understand that there were (and hopefully are) public servants and politicians that you could believe in, that worked in the public interest, that strived not for self aggrandizement, but to truly make a difference. I encourage anyone interested in political history read this book. This is a well researched, in depth and entertaining book that tells a story that is sadly too often overlooked if not completely forgotten. Jack Kemp's story, if submitted as a fictional screenplay to a Hollywood studio, would be tossed out as too improbable and too fantastic to be believed. His pro football career was improbable enough, coming out of a small college, being cut, and rising to become a champion and MVP. What followed was an even more improbable political career in which he became a champion and chief architect of an economic program and historic tax cut which led to an unprecedented economic boom. All the while being mocked and ridiculed as a political "backbencher" and "dumb jock." If he were to run for office in the current political climate, he would be hard pressed to find a home in either major political party. An ardent believer in free trade, a supply-sider, an anti-communist, a "well-armed dove", a friend of unions, a tax cutter, pro-immigration, pro-life, and civil rights champion who believed in "The Party of Lincoln." A great read about a great man whose voice is sorely missed.

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Laurence Goldstein

A boring tale pedantically told

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2016

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This was obviously a labor of love for these two highly regarded journalists about an estimable public figure for whom they had high regard. I am not saying a negative word about the worthy Mr. Kemp. About the book -- well, it's a boring tale pedantically told. If you want to know about Mr. Kemp go here -- the facts are here. If you want to spend an evening reading an entertaining biography read "Sinatra" by Earl Wilson, or The Autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant.

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