Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945-1966 (Right Wing in America)

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Summary: quality history
Review: I found this book entertaining and informative. Contrary to the biased rantings of revisionist idealogues, I believe that Schuparra is more than fair to the father of the modern conservative movement.

Schuparra pinpoints a critical point in US political history and tracks the development of the nascent political ideology that one day will take over national government.

I enjoy good, well written history and I certainly enjoyed this book. It is extremely well written and highly entertaining.

Unless you refuse to use your left hand for fear of its revolutionary tendencies, as some of the other reviewers seem to, you will absolutely enjoy this book.

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Summary: A balanced, needed book on California and US politics.
Review: Kurt Schuparra has given many hot-button political figures a detached, centrist evaluation that will be helpful to anyone interested in the impact that the organized right wing has had on national politics. He touches on all of the important issues in less than 160 pages, and provides reasonable judgements on numerous scholarly questions without engaging in extended obtuse debate. Liberals and conservatives both will find a few arguments with Schuparra-- a sign of his independent relevance-- but each should find his consideration of an overdue topic helpful.

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Summary: the right bashes itself
Review: Leave it to '[e-mail]' to do his own conservative-bashing - urging the assassination of its political opponents is just the kind of thing the right deserves to get bashed for.