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A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat Hardcover – October 1, 2003

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With the growl of the Marine sergeant he was, Senator Zell Miller leaves no doubt that he believes his own Democratic Party is badly out of step with most of the country and needs to shape up or ship out. As part of a stinging critique of the Democratic Party, Miller outlines key positions on important issues that can again make the party relevant for the entire nation. From tax cuts to welfare, gun control to the environment, the arts to education, immigration to terrorism, Miller identifies values that make sense to a growing majority of Americans. Miller's candid analysis of the campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton further underscores his conclusion that the Democratic Party can no longer field a serious presidential challenge. Many party loyalists will not like what Senator Miller writes; yet his credentials are beyond question, for few Democrats have worked longer or stronger for the party and its candidates.

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Zell Miller began his career in public service in 1959 with a term as mayor of Young Harris, Georgia. In 1960, he was elected to the Georgia Senate at the age of 28. In 1974, he won the first of four consecutive terms as Georgias lieutenant governor. Then in 1990, Miller ran for governor and won the first of two terms he would serve as the states top leader.

Millers HOPE Scholarship program was dubbed by the Los Angeles Times as "the most far-reaching scholarship program in the nation. His pre-kindergarten program won an award for innovation from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

After leaving the governors office in 1999, Miller taught at Emory University and at his alma maters, the University of Georgia and Young Harris College. Five books have been written by Miller, including "Corps Values: Everything You Need To Know I Learned in the Marines." He also served on several corporate boards before joining the Senate, where he now serves.

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And so, Mr. Miller went to Washington. I wish I could say the experience has been like Jimmy Stewarts in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I wish I could say that I found Washington all I had ever dreamed it to be, the place where the great issues of the day are debated and solved, and great giants walk those hallowed halls. I so wanted Robert Louis Stevenson to be wrong when he wrote, "It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."

Unfortunately, what I discovered in Washington was truth, and truth did not set me free. It simply made me mad. It filled me with anger on behalf of Americans. You might still ask why I would want to take my own party to the woodshed. The answer is simple: My conscience made me do it.

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Publisher : Stroud & Hall Publishers; First Editiion edition (October 1, 2003)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0974537616
ISBN-13 : 978-0974537610
Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches

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Great Insights

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Zell Miller comes across as homespun, honest and easy to like in the audio CD. Interestingly, many of the issues and concerns raised and discussed by Miller 15 years ago remain. In fact, many of them are worse - and the two political parties have further split, moved to the fringes, and quit working together. The Congress and President's parties have switched, but the approach hasn't. It is also interesting to hear the perspective of a "conservative Democrat" - as rare as a Rockefeller Republican today. A great insight into the last of a bipartisan breed.

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Pamela Sipper

Truth and Reason from the Heart of a Good Man

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I have been a long time fan of Governor Miller. He worked hard for the people of Georgia and I can only imagine his frustration at all the stalemating he saw in Washington. This book was written in 2003, but then-Senator Miller correctly predicted the toxic political atmosphere we see today. His book is written from the heart and conscience of a true patriot.

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A Democrat with Values AND Ideas, Too!

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2004

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This book was easy to read, quick, and entertaining. It was exciting for me to read about someone in my party (I am a Democrat) with strong ethical values and opinions plus the courage to stand up for them and to speak out. This takes hutzpa in our politically correct culture. If you are a Democrat, but feel discouraged at the overrepresentation of the party by (as you see it) hate-filled liberals, this book will be encouraging to you. Zell Miller is an honorable individual with both character and courage, and knowing that he remains a Democrat makes me proud of my party for a change.
The book is filled with specific things he did to improve the lives of the people of Georgia---ideas that worked! He contemplates ways of improving our country now and laments many of the failures of others' past efforts to effect change. Zell Miller discusses the importance of the arts (not a traditional conservative view). He also discusses the controversy surrounding the current environmental policy of the Bush administration and presents a view that supports some of their decisions---all based on facts. When he criticizes the Bush administration, he does so with respect, and not like a two-year old who badly needs a diaper change---so refreshing! This book makes you think.
Some of Zell Miller's idea are surprising, but all are provocative and ethical. If only our current Democratic candidates could take a hint from Zell Miller and present concrete, do-able ideas that are value-based, I think that our country would have a viable challenge to Bush. Unfortunately, this looks like it won't happen.
If you agree with my opinions, are turned off by Democratic demagogues, and wish there were more conservative Democrats, you'll like this book. If you are liberal or progressive and tolerant, I think you'll enjoy it too. If you are part of the so-called radical left you will probably find Zell Miller old-fashioned or unenlightened and be quite intolerant of him, his book, those who read his book, and those who think about reading his book. Still, you might want to buy it anyway and have fellow rad-libs over for a book-burning party while chanting "Anybody But Bush"!

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Brenton Morley

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I had never heard of Zell Miller before I saw this book at our public library and read it. He is a rarity--a truly bi-partison politician. I appreciated so much his honest appraisal of his own political party--the Democratic Party. He showed how the party has lost touch with the common ordinary citizens that it is supposed to represent. I was really glad to read this book this fall before election time.

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No Insight on Democrats; Please, Switch Parties and be Happy

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2003

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"A National Party No More," ostensibly a book of political criticism, is equal parts autobiographical. The book contains scattered reminisces of Miller's childhood and long political career, generous amounts of "down-home" moralizing, and assurances, as far as core Democratic issues go, that "he has been there and done that." He claims to have personally lived in meager circumstances (in today's lexicon, in poverty), to be a committed conservationist, and to not have a discriminatory bone in his body, rejecting his publicly-spoken racist statements as a young man. In other words, Miller wants to convince us that he is the true Democrat, in touch with the issues and, above all, values of middle-America. However, it is extremely odd that a book that is so assertive in its condemnations makes little effort to examine numerous contemporary economic issues that are having an impact on working Americans and are traditionally addressed by Democrats.

Millions of manufacturing jobs have been replaced by low-wage service work; free-trade agreements have resulted in a substantial drain of jobs to overseas locations with harsh working regimes; a variety of visa programs are both putting downward pressures on wages and stealing jobs from many technical and professional Americans; and out-of-control corporations operate with impunity to manipulate markets, loot retirement accounts, and redistribute income upwards as never done before. Not only are these, and many other, extremely important and harmful core Democratic issues not discussed by Miller, but one does not learn how Democrats are handling them.

There is so little analysis of what national Democrats are actually thinking, saying, and doing, that the reader is left to puzzle over Miller's strong disapproval of them. To Miller, Democrats are "die-hard liberals" and members of the "loony left" and would require him to keep his "left turn signal blinking and burning brightly" were he to follow their lead. This sort of gratuitous labeling is designed to stop understanding political issues in its tracks.

Miller claims that Democrats are captured by many "special interests," which he derisively labels as the "Groups." It is absolutely true that Democrats attempt to represent a greater variety of societal elements, some better organized than others, than do Republicans. For example, labor unions and environmental groups bring informed interest to bear on real problems, which apply to Southerners, as well as to Northerners. Miller's fixation on the detriments of "groups" undercuts his willingness to recognize and address legitimate issues. However, Miller is totally silent on the impact of the largest interest group on politicians, and that is the massive big business lobby. The groups trying to influence Democrats only wish that they could have the insider status that business lobbyists do. The regulatory bodies in this country have been captured by industry insiders. The financial harm done to ordinary citizens by the failure of S&L regulators, the SEC, and utility regulators, etc has been enormous. Of course, corporate PAC money dwarfs that contributed by all other bodies in election cycles. These are issues for "true" Democrats.

It is perfectly clear that Miller has not been a life-long Democrat because of a careful study of the pros and cons of various parties. Actually, Miller inherited his Democratic leaning from his mother, a die-hard Democrat. She was, in Miller's words, a strong supporter of FDR and disliked Hoover, who essentially abandoned working people in the Great Depression. Miller seems to be completely unaware of the ironies here. FDR and his band of Progressives implemented by far the most radical economic program that this country has ever seen. Many Democrats of that day were to the left of today's "liberals" that Miller is now so keen to castigate. Yet he finds no fault with FDR. How inconsistent can one get?

Miller is especially disingenuous in his explanations for the demise of national Democrats in the South. The national Democratic Party accommodated the racist, Southern wing of the party until the mid-1960s. After Johnson's Great Society initiative, it was first Goldwater, then the Nixon Republicans, who began to capture the old-South vote with subtle racist appeals. More recently, Southern suburbanites have been captured by the free-market mantra and tax-cuts of the right. Republicans have also tried to capture the "values" argument. The relatively greater affluence of Republican supporters helps them to avoid some of the social dysfunctions of poorer people, who are scapegoated as having poor character. Democrats, by association with their lower income support base, get labeled as lacking "values." But it is an insidious conceit to claim moral superiority.

In a real stretch, Miller accuses national Democrats as simply writing off Southerners, regarding them as back-woods ignoramuses. Furthermore, he attaches disproportionate importance to national Democrats not being intimately familiar with details of Southern culture. They are supposed to know how to eat catfish correctly, and indulge in all other arcane Southern habits. Of course, none of that has any connection to politics. One wonders if a conservative from Montana, who is just as likely to violate Southern protocol, would be subject to the same criticism as a liberal.

There are many long-time supporters of the Democratic Party, who feel that the Democrats have lost their way. But their analysis is completely opposite that of Miller's. It would be their contention that Democrats have lost sight of their core issues, those of FDR and Johnson, and that they have been captured by the special interests of Wall Street and the corporate PACs, just like the Republicans. In their view, the Democratic Party needs to move leftward, not to the right.

Miller's book is a self-congratulatory autobiography combined with very simplistic political commentary. It really does little to advance understanding of today's world and the Democratic Party. Frankly, more was expected of this author than was delivered. Miller remains more "old-South" than he realizes, and he stands starkly exposed because his Southern Democratic Party has long since disintegrated.

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