The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices?



Conventional wisdom attributes the Republican resurgence to a political bait and switch—the notion that conservatives win elections on social issues like abortion and religious expression, but once in office imple...