Book description
The Right Nation is the definitive portrait of the America that few
outsiders understand: the America that votes for George Bush, that
supports the death penalty and gun rights, that believes in minimal
government and long prison sentences, that pulled out of the Kyoto
Protocol.
America, argue John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, award
winning journalists at The Economist, has always been a conservative
country; but over the past 50 years it has built up a radical
conservative movement unlike any other country. The authors tell the
story of how these radicals took over the Republican Party, and they
deconstruct the Bush White House, examining the many influences from
neo-conservatism to sun belt entrepreneurialism. This quest takes the
authors from young churchgoers in Colorado Springs to gay gun clubs in
Massachusetts to black supporters of school vouchers in Milwaukee. And
they drive to the heart of a question that is relevant to us all: why
does America seem so different?
John Micklethwait is the US editor of The Economist and Adrian
Wooldridge writes its Lexington column. They are the authors of A Future
Perfect, The Witch Doctors and The Company: A Short History of a
Revolutionary Idea.
