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Telephone Paperback – February 9, 2014
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- Print length214 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 9, 2014
- Dimensions6 x 0.49 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101495357724
- ISBN-13978-1495357725
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- Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 9, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 214 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1495357724
- ISBN-13 : 978-1495357725
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.49 x 9 inches
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_Telephone_ is much more than a compilation of primary source material capturing the essence of Millennial Generation conservative talk radio; the book also serves as a map of the ideological environment facing conservatives (and the Republican Party) today--Veley catalogues the constellation of positions taken by the Left (p. 10) and the Right (p. 139). Moreover, the book heralds a call to arms; Veley addresses the coming 2016 election, namely the Christie dimension, by pointing out that "winning elections is important, but if it means compromising the very essence of who you are, then it simply isn't worth it" (p. 144). He also courageously takes on the ubiquitous "hard working Latino" trope in the immigration debate by pointing out that such admirable qualities alone do not necessarily constitute a get-into-America-free card (p. 152).
The most powerful moments in the book tend to be where Veley offers a look into the personal reasons behind his politics, especially flashbacks to his formative years or key historical dates during his lifetime. For example, he recounts his experience as the leader of a reading club in elementary school--his teacher shut the club down on the grounds that some of his classmates whose reading skills were less developed might "feel left out" (p. 84). The delicious irony underlying this incident is that the Left helped to manufacture Jayson Veley as a product of their totalitarian excesses. His teacher unwittingly awakened Veley at an early age to the fact that he's a despised minority in the very country his ancestors founded and built--after all, he's an evil white, heterosexual, English-speaking male who would no doubt become rich and go on to oppress his less literate classmates in union-busting sweatshops one day, if his teacher hadn't implemented her brand of Affirmative Action in that third grade classroom. (Oh my, Veley's sarcastic wit is contagious, it seems). The fruit of this incident is what I find so encouraging, however--I suspect there are a lot of healthy American youth like Veley out there who will have had similar experiences, and who will realize that the System controlled by the Left is stacked against them.
It is my deepest hope that Veley's book will serve as a beacon to these dispossessed young conservatives.
A note of full disclosure: I'm definitely a biased reviewer; Jayson is a fellow New Englander, so I can easily relate to him as a conservative blooming in a blue-state desert. I escaped to South Carolina a few years ago, though, and his radio show has a way of kindling in me a sort of nostalgia for home, or at least aspects of home.

