{"id":3415,"date":"2010-10-25T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T13:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2010-12-01T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:41:37","slug":"midterm-elections-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/midterm-elections-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm Elections: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 25, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Midterm Elections: Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News: <\/em>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 \u201cObama Agenda,\u201d are earnestly working to end that. This week we share more<\/a> newly acquired titles on the Republican Party, neoconservatism, and conservatism in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The following are on order. Look for them in the very near future!<\/p>\n

The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Will Bunch. Harper Collins, August 2010<\/p>\n

Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Scott W. Rasmussen. Harper, September 2010<\/p>\n

No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By David T. Courtwright. Harvard University Press, October 2010<\/p>\n

Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jonah Goldberg. Harper Collins, October 2010<\/p>\n

Why Conservatives Tell Stories & Liberals Don\u2019t: Rhetoric, Faith, and Vision on the American Right<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By David M. Ricci. Paradigm Publishers, September 2010<\/p>\n

Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy. Simon & Schuster, September 2010<\/p>\n

These are currently available:<\/p>\n

Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Michael L. Ondaatje. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
\nCall Number: E189 .I56 O53 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jeff Sharlet. Little, Brown & Co, 2010
\nCall Number: BR526 .S52 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

The Christian Right in Republican State Politics<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Kimberly H. Conger. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
\nCall Number: JK2356 .C65 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Conservative History of the American Left<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Daniel J. Flynn. Crown Forum, 2008
\nCall Number: HX83 .F59 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Sarah Katherine Mergel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
\nCall Number: E856 .M46 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama\u2019s Radical Agenda<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Sean Hannity. Harper, 2010
\nCall Number: JC573.2 .U6 H343 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Conservatism and American Political Development<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Brian J. Glenn and Steven M. Teles. Oxford University Press, 2009
\nCall Number: Available via NetLibrary<\/a><\/p>\n

The Death of Conservatism<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House, 2009
\nCall Number: JC573.2 .U6 T355 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman. Harper, 2009
\nCall Number: JC573.2 .U6 C65 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe. William Morrow, 2010
\nCall Number: JK2391 .T43 A96 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

God in the Corridors of Power: Christian Conservatives, the Media, and Politics in America<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Michael Ryan and Les Switzer. Praeger, 2009
\nCall Number: BR115 .P7 R93 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jennifer Burns. Oxford University Press, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3535 .A547 Z587 2009<\/a> (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Going Rogue: An American Life<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Sarah Palin. Harper, 2009
\nCall Number: F910.7 P35 A3 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Going Rouge: Sarah Palin: An American Nightmare<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed. OR Books, 2009
\nCall Number: F910.7 .P35 G65 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

How Two Political Entrepreneurs Helped Create the American Conservative Movement, 1973-1981: The Ideas of Richard Viguerie and Paul Weyrich<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Alf Tomas T\u00f8nnessen. Edwin Mellen Press, 2009
\nCall Number: JC573.2 .U6 T65 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Justin Vaisse. Belknap Pres of Harvard University Press, 2010
\nCall Number: JC573.2 .U6 V33 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By C. Bradley Thompson, with Yaron Brook. Paradigm Publishers, 2010
\nCall Number: JC573.2 .U6 T46 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Neoconservatives in U.S. Foreign Policy under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: Voices Behind the Throne<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jes\u00fas Velasco. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
\nCall Number: E876 .V44 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Norman Podhoretz and <\/em>Commentary <\/strong>Magazine: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Nathan Abrams. Continuum, 2010
\nCall Number: JC573.2 .P54 A87 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration\u2019s War on America<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer. Threshold Editions, 2010
\nCall Number: JK516 .G4 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By George H. Nash. ISI Books, 2009
\nCall Number: JC573.2 .U6 N37 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Republican Leader: A Political Biography of Senator Mitch McConnell<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By John David Dyche. ISI Books, 2009
\nCall Number: E840.8 .M3325 D93 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Michael Steele. Regnery Pub., 2009
\nCall Number: JK2356 .S74 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe. Public Affairs, 2009
\nCall Number: F910.7 .P35 C66 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

To Save America: Stopping Obama\u2019s Secular-Socialist Machine<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis. Regnery Pub., 2010
\nCall Number: JK275 .G56 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

We are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By John Derbyshire. Crown Forum, 2009
\nCall Number: JC573 .U65 D47 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Eileen Luhr. University of California Press, 2009
\nCall Number: BR1642 .U5 L84 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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