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Strange Death of Republican America, The: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party

Strange Death of Republican America, The: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party

by SidneyBlumenthal (Author)

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Synopsis

Sidney Blumenthal - trenchant analyst, author, and senior adviser to Bill Clinton (and more recently, Hillary) - offers a penetrating journalistic and historical examination of the ongoing collapse of Republicanism. These collected essays and opinion columns provide a unifying and overarching perspective on the Bush years - discussing the underlying political shifts that are demonstrably weakening the once-strong foundations of Republican philosophy and governance. This inclusive portrait is essential reading for anyone fascinated by politics.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Union Square
Published: 01 Jun 2008
ISBN 10: 1402757891
ISBN 13: 9781402757891

Media Reviews
In this incisive and timely essay compilation, Blumenthal, a former adviser to both Bill and Hillary Clinton, charts the fatal radicalization of the Republican Party, its imminent great unraveling and the consequences for the 2008 election. Blumenthal argues that the presidency of George W. Bush heralds the decline of the Republican Party after 30 years of political dominance, moderating his otherwise passionate indictment of the GOP by acknowledging that power ebbs and flows between the two parties over time. He likens the current shift to the implosion of the Johnson presidency and subsequent weakening of the Democratic Party, saying, Vietnam ended a Democratic era as definitively as Iraq is closing a Republican one. The consummate Washington insider, Blumenthal has a host of high-ranking (albeit often anonymous) sources, and surprising portraits of power pepper the book: of Bush as a classic insecure authoritarian given to imposing humiliating tests of obedience on his staff (such as locking Colin Powell out of a cabinet meeting for being late), Laura Bush as deeply disdainful of Rove (allegedly dubbing him Pigpen ), former Majority Leader Tom DeLay as the Republican Stalin, the ruthless consolidator and centralizer. Authoritative, meticulously researched, these previously published pieces evade many of the cliches that ensnare partisan political writing and is instead a lively--if deeply sobering--panorama of political life during the Bush presidency. -- Publisher's Weekly (Apr. 1)