The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (772 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062475266 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Henry Olsen is an incisive political analyst and a senior fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington, DC, think tank. He has also published op-eds and book reviews in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TheWashington Times, and TheWashington Examiner.. He is a regular contributor to such leading publications as The National Review,
Goes too far in trying to align Trump and Reagan It’s certainly true, as Olsen notes that Reagan was not the ideologue that some portrayed him. Having said that, I think that Olsen goes a little too far in trying to align Trump and Reagan. Take their respective views on trade, for example. It is correct that Reagan did make occasional feints to protectionism (as have almost all Presidents) however, in theory and in practice, he was free trader. In announcing his candidacy for the Presidency in 1979, Reagan spoke of the need fo. Author very weak on facts and people. This book has some good insights, but the author has very odd views on a number of aspects of Reagan's political stances. Particularly strange is his assault on supply-side economics, which he seriously distorts by claiming that the Supply-Siders wanted only to cut taxes on the rich. His attack on Jack Kemp (pages 200, 201) is an example of how far off the author is from reality.The very first paragraph of chapter one has a perfect example of how loose the author is with people and fa. Not the Real Reagan Henry Olsen has written a book about Ronald Reagan that has serious flaws. In summary, this is a book about Olsen's world view. He chooses the parts of Reagan's philosophy that support his point of view while ignoring the true Reagan vision. Like any book there are some valid points but there are numerous places where Olsen's interpretation of Reagan is wrong. Save your money and research the numerous documents at the Reagan library to learn about the real Ronald Reagan.
” (James W. In Henry’s excellent book, we learn that Reagan was hardly the ideologue many of his biggest detractors (and fans) presume, but felt that energetic government sometimes could and should be deployed on behalf of America’s working class. ” (Jonah Goldberg, Senior Editor, National Review) . By shining some much needed light on modern conservatism’s most important figure, Henry Olsen has also showed the Republican Party a way forward.” (J.D. Vance, New York Times bestse
For the good of all citizens and the GOP, he implores Republicans to once again become a party of "FDR Conservatives"—to rediscover and support the basic elements of FDR (and Reagan’s) vision.. In this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program’s ultimate savior.Conventional political wisdom views the two most consequential presidents of the twentieth-century—FDR and Ronald Reagan—as ideological opposites. Olsen corrects faulty assumptions driving today’s politics. But Henry Olsen argues that this assumption is wrong.In The Working Class Republican, Olsen contends that the historical record clearly shows that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal itself were more conservative than either Democrats or Republicans believe, and that Ronald Reagan was more progressive than most contemporary Republicans understand. Reagan is seen as th