It was all a lie : how the republican party became donald trump

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Label

It was all a lie : how the republican party became donald trump

Title remainder

how the republican party became donald trump

Statement of responsibility

Stuart Stevens

Creator

• Stevens, Stuart

Contributor

• ProQuest (Firm)

Subject

• Political culture -- United States -- History
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History
• Trump, Donald, 1946-
• Conservatism -- United States -- History
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989

Language

eng

Summary

From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal expos of how his party became what it is todayStuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else. Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Stevens shows how racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, from Goldwater's opposition to desegregation to Ronald Reagan's welfare queens and states' rights rhetoric. He gives an insider's account of the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values," and shows how the party's vaunted commitment to fiscal responsibility has been a charade since the 1980s. When a party stands for nothing, he argues, it is only natural that it will be taken over by the loudest and angriest voices in the room.It Was All a Lie is not just an indictment of the Republican Party, but a candid and often lacerating mea culpa. Stevens is not asking for pity or forgiveness; he is simply telling us what he has seen firsthand. He helped to create the modern party that kneels before a morally bankrupt con man and now he wants nothing more than to see what it has become burned to the ground

Cataloging source

NhCcYBP

Dewey number

324.2734

Index

no index present

LC call number

JK2356

LC item number

.S746 2020

Literary form

unknown

Nature of contents

dictionaries