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Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream | 
| Authors: Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
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Rating:  19 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0385519435
Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2734
EAN: 9780385519434
ASIN: 0385519435
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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“Memo to John McCain: Please, please READ THIS BOOK. It can help you win the election and guide Republicans in shaping the political future.
Memo to Democrats: Don’t read this book. It's going to be THE political book of 2008. Republicans will be better off if you choose to ignore it.”
--William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard
In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and needs of working-class voters.
Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. Blending history, analysis, and fresh, often controversial recommendations, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that it is time to move beyond the Reagan legacy and the mind-set of the current Republican power structure.
In a concise examination of recent political trends, the authors show that the Democrats' cultural liberalism makes their party inherently hostile to the interests and values of the working class. But on a host of issues, today's Republican Party lacks a message that speaks to their economic aspirations. Grand New Party offers a new direction—a conservative vision of a limited-but-active government that tackles the threats to working-class prosperity and to the broader American Dream.
With specific proposals covering such hot-button topics as immigration, health care, and taxes, Grand New Party will shake up the Right, challenge the Left, and force both sides to confront and adapt to the changing political landscape.
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 No Respect November 29, 2008
J. C. Shepard (Minnesota USA)
This is 2 books in one. I like the first book--a fine review of how Goldwater's Conservatives revitalized the GOP at the very moment in history that major economic and demographic changes gave a unique opportunity to build a political majority. I knew this stuff, but it's great to see it in one place.
The 2nd book by these partners from The Atlantic, well, not so much. This is a pragmatist's wish list from a blue collar focus group, ungrounded in principal or purpose beyond the next election. Products of the blog-era, these twenty-somethings seem to have no respect for the intellectual legacy of the Reagan era. At least they can write well.
 Caring about the working class October 12, 2008
Jonathan Davies (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
When reading this book, it was so nice to see that there are conservatives who care about the needs of the working class. I like all books that offer solutions to problems and/or better alternatives to the status quo.
Thoughtful and Completely Non-Bogged Down by Partisan Hackery September 18, 2008
Daniel H. Fruchter (silver spring maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Due to some time constraints this past summer, I only recently got to read Grand New Party. I was extremely impressed with both the quality of the writing and the quality of the ideas. We've heard populist language from conservatives before, but in this book the authors take the time to largely strip away the rhetoric and come up with many ideas for how one party might realign itself to actually stand up for the people upon which its success has always depended. Some of the ideas I thought were great, some I thought were awful, but I found virtually all of the ideas challenging and worthy of dicussion.
The historical portions of the book are written with grace and with an eye towards, if not neutrality, certainly an intellectual honesty sorely missing in most political writing. I have never been a consumer of political books and I doubt I will start being so now, but Grand New Party is full of innovative thinking and quality writing. Most political books are full of arguments (and poorly made ones), this one is full of ideas. I typically only read science and the occasional novel, but this is one of my top books of the year and I recommend without reservation.
Must Read No Matter Elephant or Donkey August 24, 2008
J. J. Writer
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is a smooth read that is brainy yet down to earth at the same time. Lots of facts, plus some stats and demographics, but they don't overwhelm the reader. It is noted that working class voters comprise the "battleground" where most electoral campaigns are fought and decided, and the authors point out that GOP'ers must address the key issue of economic insecurity for this constituency that has been taken for granted by the Bushies since 9/11. Of course, addressing "economic insecurity" or the feeling the working class has "lost the future" is the challenge for both parties. The suggested approaches in the book are not terribly novel or surprising, but require a willingness of party power brokers to be open to changing the status quo. Dems, you may get more out of it than Repubs.
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