"Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party"

Democracy Now by Juan Gonzalez, Max Blumenthal | Sep. 4, 2009 (Review)

(Video) award-winning journalist Max Blumenthal joins us for the first extended interview about his debut book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party. The book traces the rise of the radical right in the US and how it used the concept of personal crisis to grow as a movement and eventually capture control of the GOP to transform it from the party of Dwight Eisenhower to the party of Sarah Palin. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Sep 9, 2009 - 4:19 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Tanya J. Maurer (review)
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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 9, 2009

Stridency without accuracy is an Eisenhower capsulization of the threat of the radical right of his day, and Blumenthal maps that to the present right wing domination of the Republican party.

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    () An obscure letter from President Dwight D. Eisenhower offers a still relevant plea: to accept the burden of democracy.
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