October 25, 2010
Midterm Elections: Part 1
In the News: Many in the political world are counting down the days until the midterm elections on November 2. Democrats currently control both houses of Congress, but Republicans and other conservatives, outraged by the “Obama Agenda,” are earnestly working to end that. This week we share more newly acquired titles on the Republican Party, neoconservatism, and conservatism in general.
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The following are on order. Look for them in the very near future!
The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama
By Will Bunch. Harper Collins, August 2010
Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System
By Scott W. Rasmussen. Harper, September 2010
No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America
By David T. Courtwright. Harvard University Press, October 2010
Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation
By Jonah Goldberg. Harper Collins, October 2010
Why Conservatives Tell Stories & Liberals Don’t: Rhetoric, Faith, and Vision on the American Right
By David M. Ricci. Paradigm Publishers, September 2010
Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders
By Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy. Simon & Schuster, September 2010
These are currently available:
Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America
By Michael L. Ondaatje. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
Call Number: E189 .I56 O53 2010
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
By Jeff Sharlet. Little, Brown & Co, 2010
Call Number: BR526 .S52 2010
The Christian Right in Republican State Politics
By Kimberly H. Conger. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Call Number: JK2356 .C65 2009
A Conservative History of the American Left
By Daniel J. Flynn. Crown Forum, 2008
Call Number: HX83 .F59 2008
Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon
By Sarah Katherine Mergel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Call Number: E856 .M46 2010
Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda
By Sean Hannity. Harper, 2010
Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 H343 2010
Conservatism and American Political Development
Edited by Brian J. Glenn and Steven M. Teles. Oxford University Press, 2009
Call Number: Available via NetLibrary
The Death of Conservatism
By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House, 2009
Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 T355 2009
The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama
By Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman. Harper, 2009
Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 C65 2009
Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto
By Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe. William Morrow, 2010
Call Number: JK2391 .T43 A96 2010
God in the Corridors of Power: Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America
By Michael Ryan and Les Switzer. Praeger, 2009
Call Number: BR115 .P7 R93 2009
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
By Jennifer Burns. Oxford University Press, 2009
Call Number: PS3535 .A547 Z587 2009 (At Jupiter)
Going Rogue: An American Life
By Sarah Palin. Harper, 2009
Call Number: F910.7 P35 A3 2009
Going Rouge: Sarah Palin: An American Nightmare
Edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed. OR Books, 2009
Call Number: F910.7 .P35 G65 2009
How Two Political Entrepreneurs Helped Create the American Conservative Movement, 1973-1981: The Ideas of Richard Viguerie and Paul Weyrich
By Alf Tomas Tønnessen. Edwin Mellen Press, 2009
Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 T65 2009
Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement
By Justin Vaisse. Belknap Pres of Harvard University Press, 2010
Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 V33 2010
Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea
By C. Bradley Thompson, with Yaron Brook. Paradigm Publishers, 2010
Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 T46 2010
Neoconservatives in U.S. Foreign Policy under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: Voices Behind the Throne
By Jesús Velasco. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
Call Number: E876 .V44 2010
Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons
By Nathan Abrams. Continuum, 2010
Call Number: JC573.2 .P54 A87 2010
The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America
By Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer. Threshold Editions, 2010
Call Number: JK516 .G4 2010
Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism
By George H. Nash. ISI Books, 2009
Call Number: JC573.2 .U6 N37 2009
Republican Leader: A Political Biography of Senator Mitch McConnell
By John David Dyche. ISI Books, 2009
Call Number: E840.8 .M3325 D93 2009
Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda
By Michael Steele. Regnery Pub., 2009
Call Number: JK2356 .S74 2009
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
By Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe. Public Affairs, 2009
Call Number: F910.7 .P35 C66 2009
To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine
By Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis. Regnery Pub., 2010
Call Number: JK275 .G56 2010
We are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism
By John Derbyshire. Crown Forum, 2009
Call Number: JC573 .U65 D47 2009
Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture
By Eileen Luhr. University of California Press, 2009
Call Number: BR1642 .U5 L84 2009