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Reclaiming Conservatism - How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - And How It Can Find Its Way Back (Hardcover)
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Reclaiming Conservatism - How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - And How It Can Find Its Way Back (Hardcover)
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A leading figure in the American conservative movement for over 40
years, Mickey Edwards was a prominent Republican congressman, a
former national chairman of the American Conservative Union, and a
founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation. When he speaks,
conservatives listen. Now, in this highly provocative and frank
volume, Edwards argues loud and clear that conservatives today have
abandoned their principles and have become champions of that which
they once most feared. The conservative movement-which once
nominated Barry Goldwater for President, and later elected Ronald
Reagan-was based on a distinctly American kind of conservatism
which drew its inspiration directly from the United States
Constitution-in particular, an overriding belief in individual
liberty and limited government. But today, Edwards argues, the
mantle of conservatism has been taken over by people whose beliefs
and policies threaten the entire constitutional system of
government. By abetting an imperial presidency, he contends,
so-called "conservatives" have gutted the system of checks and
balances, abandoned due process, and trampled upon our cherished
civil liberties. Today's conservatives endorse unprecedented
assertions of government power-from the creation of secret prisons
to illegal wiretapping. Once, they fought to protect citizens from
government intrusion; today, they seem to recognize few limits on
what government can do. The movement that was once the
Constitution's-and freedom's-strongest defender is now at risk of
becoming its most dangerous enemy. Edwards ends with a blueprint
for reclaiming the essence of conservatism in America. Touching
upon many current issues, this passionately argued book concludes
that many of today's conservatives seem to have it all backwards.
They have turned conservatism upside down-and this book calls them
on it.
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