Publisher's Synopsis
Sam Tanenhaus's essay Conservatism Is Dead prompted intense discussion and debate when it was published in the New Republic in the first days of Barack Obamas presidency. Now Tanenhaus, a leading authority on modern politics, has expanded his argument into a sweeping history of the American conservative movement. For seventy-five years, he argues, the Right has been split between two factions: consensus-driven realists, who believe in the virtue of government and its power to adjust to changing conditions, and movement revanchists, who distrust government and society - and often find themselves at war with America itself.
