Conservatism That Can Win Again
by David Frum
Doubleday, 2008, 213 pp $24.95
The Conservative Ascendancy:
How the GOP Right Made
Political History
by Donald T. Critchlow
Harvard University Press, 2007, 359 pp $27.95
They Knew They Were Right:
The Rise of the Neocons
by Jacob Heilbrunn
Doubleday, 2008, 320 pp $26
CONSERVATIVES ARE are soul-searching. As they watch the presidency of George W. Bush tank, they are singing like a chorus in a Greek tragedy: This is not our creation, this is a monster, a head cut off from the conservative body spinning out of control. We did not want a bloated budget, a deficit, a disastrous war, an imperial presidency, a crony style of governance. David Frum has joined this litany of dissatisfaction and dissociation. Once a speechwriter to Bush—he coined the famous words “axis o...
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