Is The conservative revolution (1999) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 6 / 100 (very CHUD (right-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Lee Edwards, 1999.
11 votes: 9% WOKE, 91% CHUD.
Why: Conservative movement history
Edwards tells the stories of how conservatives built a movement from the ground up by starting magazines, by building grass-roots organizations, and by seizing control of the Republican party from those who espoused collaboration with the liberals and promised only to manage the welfare state more efficiently and not to dismantle it. But most of all he tells the story of four men, four leaders who put their personal stamp on this movement and helped to turn it into the most important political force in our country today: Robert Taft, "Mr. Republican," the beacon of conservative principle during the lean Roosevelt and Truman years; Barry Goldwater, "Mr. Conservative," the flinty Westerner wh…