The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right - Max Boot

The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right

By Max Boot

  • Release Date: 2018-10-09
  • Genre: Political Science
4 Score: 4 (From 41 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

A “must read” (Joe Scarborough) by a New York Times– best- selling author, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents a necessary defense of American democracy.
Praised on publication as “one of the most impressive and unfl inching diagnoses of the pathologies in Republican politics that led to Trump’s rise” (Jonathan Chait, New York), The Corrosion of Conservatism documents a president who has traduced every norm and the rise of a nascent centrist movement to counter his assault on democracy. In this “admirably succinct and trenchant” (Charles Reichman, San Francisco Chronicle) exhumation of conservatism, Max Boot tells the story of an ideological dislocation so shattering that it caused his courageous transformation from Republican foreign policy advisor to celebrated anti- Trump columnist. From recording his political coming- of- age as a young émigré from the Soviet Union to describing the vitriol he endured from his erstwhile conservative colleagues, Boot mixes “lively memoir with sharp analysis” (William Kristol) from its Reagan-era apogee to its corrosion under Donald Trump.

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Latest Impressions

  • Introspection Makes this book worth reading

    5
    By ChgoLaw67
    I have read a few books by Never-trumpers. What makes this book valuable is that Max Boot has taken the time to be self-critical. Boot used for a party line conservative Republican. He has left the Republican party because itemized Trump. He is a tough critic of his former self, but his writing is excellent. The effort is successful because Boot has learned from his experience.
  • The Corrosion of Conservatism

    5
    By R Deal
    For someone who was never Trump until you voted for him on Election Day 2016, please be honest and open minded as you read this.. I am a center left Democrat and I find the view of the writer after reading this book very similar to my own.
  • Ditto

    4
    By DiabetesEveryDay.com
    Never an activist in politics I find myself preparing to cast, in just a few weeks, straight ticket votes for the Democratic candidates for Governor and whatever legislative offices are on the ballot in my state...I don't really care who they are. Always a Republican voter it is not Trump so much as the very collapse of courage, honor, reason, and principle among the candidates and office holders in the Republican Party that has alienated me forever. The Libertarian vote I cast for President in the general election was my statement at the time....like the author, I had no idea the rest of the party was so completely gutless.