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The Roots of Modern Conservatism - Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party (Paperback)
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The Roots of Modern Conservatism - Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party (Paperback)
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Between 1944 and 1953, a power struggle emerged between New York
governor Thomas Dewey and U.S. senator Robert Taft of Ohio that
threatened to split the Republican Party. In The Roots of Modern
Conservatism, Michael Bowen reveals how this two-man battle for
control of the GOP - and the Republican presidential nomination -
escalated into a divide of ideology that ultimately determined the
party's political identity. Initially, Bowen argues, the separate
Dewey and Taft factions endorsed fairly traditional Republican
policies. However, as their conflict deepened, the normally mundane
issues of political factions, such as patronage and fund-raising,
were overshadowed by the question of what "true" Republicanism
meant. Taft emerged as the more conservative of the two leaders,
while Dewey viewed Taft's policies as outdated. Eventually,
conservatives within the GOP organized against Dewey's leadership
and, emboldened by the election of Dwight Eisenhower, transformed
the party into a vehicle for the Right. Bowen reveals how this
decade-long battle led to an outpouring of conservative sentiment
that had been building since World War II, setting the stage for
the ascendancy of Barry Goldwater and the modern conservative
movement in the 1960s.
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