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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780465017348
ISBN: 0465017347
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 12, 2005
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Sales Rank: 114781
Studio: Basic Books
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Product Description:
The best-selling enfant terrible of the Reagan revolution offers advice to today's budding conservatives--the very people he sees as the true "radicals" of tomorrow
Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.
He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his best-selling exposŽ Illiberal Education. Now, after serving as a Reagan White House staffer, the managing editor of Policy Review, and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution, he addresses the next generation in Letters to a Young Conservative. Drawing on his own colorful experiences, both within the conservative world and while skirmishing with the left, D'Souza aims to enlighten and inspire young conservatives and give them weapons for the intellectual battles that they face in high school, college, and everyday life. Letters to a Young Conservative also illuminates the enduring themes that for D'Souza anchor the conservative position: not "family values" or patriotism, but a philosophy based on natural rights and a belief in universal moral truths.
With a light touch, D'Souza shows that conservatism needn't be stodgy or defensive, even though it is based on preserving the status quo. To the contrary, when a conservative has to expose basic liberal assumptions to scrutiny, he or she must become a kind of imaginative, fun-loving, forward-looking guerrilla--philosophically conservative but temperamentally radical.
Among the topics Dinesh D'Souza covers in Letters to a Young Conservative:
Fighting Political Correctness
Authentic vs. Bogus Multiculturalism
Why Government Is the Problem
When the Rich Get Richer
How Affirmative Action Hurts Blacks
The Feminist Mistake
All the News That Fits
How to Harpoon a Liberal
The Self-Esteem Hoax
A Republican Realignment?
Why Conservatives Should Be Cheerful
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This is a great book for those seeking an intellectual way and good reasons to be conservative in today's culture.
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Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant who served as an author of the Dartmouth Review during his days at the college, and subsequently became a policy analyst for President Ronald Reagan. He is one of the leaders of modern intellectual conservatism, much to the ire of old Dartmouth alumni.
When I picked up "Letters to a Young Conservative", I described myself as a "skeptical conservative". I supported private industry, but also liked minimum wage; I supported tax cuts, but also wanted ... Read More
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The format of this book is a series of letter to a young college Republican student, Chris. Mired in campus politics and having just graduated from 13 years of public school, this young student is probably somewhat ambivalent about politics--he probably feels a tug to conservatism from his family and religion, but is being dragged in the opposite direction by, well... everything else--or at least that's how I felt.
Dinesh D'souza gives a strong and entertaining expose to Conservatism ... Read More
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This book transformed me into a "former admirer" of D'Souza. D'Souza could have addressed his letters to Bob, Gregg, Lisa, Beth, Adam or any of the hundreds of names that are less divisive and more helpful to the cause that he is attempting to advance in this book. His choice to address the letters to "Chris," make a stronger point than the letters themselved do. This undermines the book, the author and the cause itself and has certainly turned me off. I am sympathetic to the cause he is promoting, ... Read More
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In 30 short chapters (the book is 220 pages) D'Souza takes us on a whirlwind tour of the worldview of the conservative. Because of the brief treatment each subject receives, he cannot approach a thorough defense of any of them. Nevertheless, by the end a coherent picture emerges and he concludes by offering a reading list that should more fully satisfy the appetite he was only able to whet.
In an historical overview we learn that both conservatism and modern liberalism have their ... Read More
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