| Description |
viii, 229 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
The art of mentoring |
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Art of mentoring series.
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| Contents |
Conservatives vs. liberals -- The libertarian temptation -- The education of a conservative -- Pig wrestling at Dartmouth -- Fighting political correctness -- Authentic vs. bogus multiculturalism -- What's so great about great books -- How Reagan outsmarted the liberals -- Why government is the problem -- When the rich get richer -- How affirmative action hurts Blacks -- The feminist mistake -- Who are the postmodernists? -- Why professors are so left-wing -- All the news that fits -- A living constitution? -- More guns, less crime -- How to harpoon a liberal -- Lies my teacher taught me -- Was Lincoln a bad guy? -- The self-esteem hoax -- Who cares about the snail darter? -- Against gay marriage -- Family values since Oedipus -- Speaking as a former fetus... -- The hypocrisy of anti-globalists -- Are immigrants to blame? -- Why liberals hate America -- A Republican realignment? -- Why conservatives should be cheerful -- A conservative reading list |
| Summary |
"Dinesh D'Souza knows what it's like to be a renegade conservative in a liberal culture. In Letters To A Young Conservative, he stakes out the conservative philosophy that made him the enfant terrible of the Reagan revolution and a best-selling author." "D'Souza shows that it is conservatives who uphold the classical "liberal" principles of the American Revolution: economic freedom, political freedom, and freedom of speech and religion. These freedoms, combined with a commitment to civic and social virtue, distinguish the conservative vision of what it means to lead a good and happy life." |
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"But as a founder of the Dartmouth Review - a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s - D'Souza knows that the young conservative must be the master of strategy as well as ideas. Drawing on his own colorful experiences, both within the conservative world and skirmishing with the left, D'Souza arms young conservatives with the weapons they will need to fight battles at work, college, school and in everyday life. D'Souza challenges the conservative to expose liberal assumptions to scrutiny whenever possible; to become a kind of imaginative forward-looking guerilla - philosophically conservative, but temperamentally radical."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Series from jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Youth -- Political activity -- United States.
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Conservatism -- United States.
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Politicians -- United States -- Correspondence.
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Right and left (Political science)
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| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence.
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| LC no. |
2002008679 |
| ISBN |
0465017339 hardcover |
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