Where the Right Went Wrong, Patrick J. Buchanan
Where the Right Went Wrong, Patrick J. Buchanan
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Where the Right Went Wrong
How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency

Author: Patrick J. Buchanan

Narrator: Patrick J. Buchanan

Abridged: 4 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2004


Synopsis

A searing exposé of the saboteurs of Reaganism and sappers of the Bush administration by three-time presidential candidate and bestselling author Pat Buchanan
American Empire is at its apex. We are the sole superpower, with no potential challenger for a generation. We can reach any point on the globe with our cruise missiles and smart bombs, and our culture penetrates every nook and cranny of the global village. Yet our beloved America is now reviled abroad, dictated to by arrogant judges at home, overrun by special interests, and buried beneath a mountain of debt. Where the Right Went Wrong chronicles how the Bush administration and Beltway conservatives have abandoned their principles, and how a tiny cabal hijacked U.S. foreign policy and may have ignited a "war of civilizations" with the Islamic world that will leave America mired down in Middle East wars for years to come.At the same time, these Republicans have sacrificed the American worker on the altar of free trade and discarded the beliefs of Taft, Goldwater, and Reagan to become a party of big government that sells its soul to the highest bidder.

About Patrick J. Buchanan

Patrick J. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American Presidents, ran twice for the Republican nomination in 1992 and 1996, and was the Reform Party’s Presidential candidate in 2000. The author of seven books, Mr. Buchanan is a syndicated columnist and a political analyst for MSNBC. He is also Editor Emeritus of the political magazine, The American Conservative. He lives in McLean, Virginia.


Reviews

Buchanan is, like Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman, Michael Moore and a few others that slip my mind at the moment, what I would call a system approved rebel, a gatekeeper, or controlled opposition. He says a lot of good things, utters truths that someone in the mainstream or borderline mainst......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W

Patrick Buchanan got it right in this book. He writes that Bush's posture after 9/11 is unconstitutional and harmful to the U.S. Nowhere in the Constitution is the president afforded the power of making preemptive war, yet his approach was to declare a virtual battle against evil, rather than going......more