[Vision2020] Former Nixon Counsel John Dean's New Book, : "Conservatives Without Conscience"

[Ted Moffett]

  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=HL0607/S00084.htm

John Dean Book: Conservatives Without Conscience
*Friday, 7 July 2006, 1:39 pm*
*Opinion: * New John Dean Book: *Conservatives Without Conscience *

*Conservatives Without Conscience *
ISBN: 0670037745
Viking / Hardcover / 288 pages / $25.95
Available July 11, 2006
Amazon.com<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670037745/qid=1152134419/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7240350-1072133?s=books&v=glance&n=283155>
Barnes & Noble.com<http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0670037745&pdf=y>
Booksense.com <http://www.booksense.com/>

*DESCRIPTION:
John Dean takes a sobering look at how radical elements are destroying the
Republican Party along with the very foundations of American democracy*

John Dean's last New York Times bestseller, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret
Presidency of George W. Bush, offered the former White House insider's
unique and telling perspective on George W. Bush's presidency. Once again,
Dean employs his distinctive knowledge and understanding of Washington
politics and process to examine the conservative movement's current inner
circle of radical Republican leaders—from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania
Avenue to K Street and beyond. In Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean not
only highlights specific right-wing-driven GOP policies but also probes the
conservative mind-set, identifying recurring qualities such as the unbridled
viciousness toward those daring to disagree with them, as well as the big
business favoritism that costs taxpayers billions. Dean identifies specific
examples of how court packing is seeking to form a judiciary that is
activist by its very nature, how religious piety is producing politics run
amok, and how concealed indifference to the founding principles of liberty
and equality is pushing America further and further from its constitutional
foundations.

By the end, Dean paints a vivid picture of what's happening at the top
levels of the Republican Party, a noble political party corrupted by its
current leaders who cloak their actions in moral superiority while packaging
their programs as blatant propaganda. Dean, certainly no alarmist, finds
disturbing signs that current right-wing authoritarian thinking, when
conflated with the dominating personalities of the conservative leadership
could take the United States toward its own version of fascism. *ABOUT THE
AUTHOR:*
John Dean was White House legal counsel to President Nixon for a thousand
days. Dean also served as chief minority counsel for the House Judiciary
Committee and as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Department
of Justice.
-------------------------
Vision2020 Post by Ted Moffett
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/attachments/20060711/023679ea/attachment.htm