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The man Hardball host Chris Matthews calls “the legendary R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.” has done it again. Tyrrell, author of such tours de force as New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: The Political Biography, The Liberal Crack-Up, and The Conservative Crack-Up, serves up an insightful and delightful exploration of the past, present, and future of American conservatism, or what he terms, “America’s longest dying political philosophy.” And its future is bright.
Tyrrell begins with a sparkling distillation of conservative theory and history, complete with personal anecdotes from his decades in the movement, inspired by its luminaries, bored by its dim bulbs. He explains the nature of the conservative temperament—its “political libido”—and how it plays out in today’s curious political culture; examines the vital role of a true “political culture” and solidarity in opposing the left and then offers a comprehensive agenda for the future of the movement that every political player on both the right and the left will have to read to grapple with in 2010 and 2012.
Tyrrell also considers American Liberalism—its excesses, quirks, and near suicidal instinct. Far from offering mere indictment, however, Tyrrell also delivers a unique perspective on Liberalism’s strengths, such as its intramural ecumenism and rare ability to rally around shared causes, explaining how conservatives could learn and profit from the example.
It goes without saying that through it all Tyrrell’s famous humor crackles and lifts the spirit. Conservatives looking for perspective on the current scene, a richer understanding of their shared past, and hope for the future will find After the Hangover as refreshing as it is restorative.
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“The legendary R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.” ―CHRIS MATTHEWS
“No columnist, no author, has had a greater influence upon the course of American political history over the past decade than that ribald contrarian, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Even the slain giants die laughing.” ―TOM WOLFE
“Washington would not be the same without Bob Tyrrell and neither would the American conservative movement. While dilettantes come and go, the relentless and irrepressible Tyrrell is forever.” ―DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON)
“Tyrrell is the master of a particular form—taking broken shards of silliness, deviance, hypocrisy, crime, and treason, shaping them into Erasmian examples of human folly, and doing so with style and flow.” ―ARAM BAKSHIAN
“Tyrrell alerts us to the dangers our political system faces . . . and he does it with the insight, wit, and style that mark him as a great American writer.” ―BOB BARR
“R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. has written a stimulating book which should cause many Americans to rethink positions they have taken in the debates of the past decade.” ―HENRY KISSINGER
“For a man I disagree with as much as Emmett Tyrrell . . . I must say that I enjoyed the sheer hell out of his book.” ―NORMAN MAILER
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35 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Leading By Example
By Ira E. Stoll
The editor of the American Spectator, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., was once having dinner with Robert Bartley, the longtime editor of the Wall Street Journal; me, and my partner in the New York Sun, Seth Lipsky, when Seth remarked on how phenomenally well-read Tyrrell is.
Bartley remarked in the most constructive and encouraging way possible that this it wasn't always clear from reading Mr. Tyrrell's column, which we carried in the Sun.
Alas, Bartley did not live to see the appearance of Mr. Tyrrell's new book, After The Hangover: The Conservative' Road to Recovery. If he had, though, I think he'd have read it and come away marveling at Mr. Tyrrell's feat in pulling off, in the course of a relatively slim book, an impressive feat, a thoughtful, learned, and accessible extended essay that is part memoir, part intellectual history, part political philosophy and part prescription of policy and practice.
For conservatives - a group that for Mr. Tyrell includes those with "shared enthusiasm for constitutionally limited government, the rule of law, and free markets that spread prosperity and preserve freedom," those who stand "for liberty, the Bill of Rights, and the mild tug of traditions" - times today are both worse than is commonly thought and not as bad as is commonly thought.
Mr. Tyrell makes both cases simultaneously. That is a bit of a logical trick, but he is a smooth enough writer to accomplish it.
Start with the downside. Mr. Tyrrell quotes Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: "Every great cause begins as a movement becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket."
This, Mr. Tyrrell says, is what has happened to conservatism. "Whereas in the past conservatism's most prominent voices had been intellectuals, by the 1990s the intellectuals had been replaced by personalities, that is to say outstanding controversialists, often astoundingly vulgar."
A lot of the conservative brain trust has died: William F. Buckley Jr., Milton Friedman, Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Irving Kristol, and Robert Bartley.
And Mr. Tyrell isn't all that impressed by what remains, calling George W. Bush "a grave disappointment." That is of the few points on which Mr. Tyrrell would find common ground with a lot of left-wingers.
Conservatives have to fight against what Mr. Tyrrell calls the Kultursmog, which he defines, following James Piereson, as "the Liberal understanding of events ratified as a matter of morals and etiquette within the media and academe."
As Mr. Tyrrell sees it, though, the biggest problem facing conservatives is not liberals or mortality. "The most serious problem facing the conservative movement," he writes, is "its difficulty in pulling together."
"Conservative intellectuals are more susceptible to petty competitiveness than Liberals," mentioning what he calls "debilitating rivalries."
On to the upside. This, he writes, is "the fourth round of obituaries for conservatism, which make it the longest dying political movement in American history." The first round came in 1964 with Barry Goldwater's loss; then in 1974 after Nixon; then in 1992, when Mr. Tyrrell published The Conservative Crack-Up. If the earlier obituaries were premature, so this one may be.
Mr. Tyrrell says that not even the left's leaders will openly argue for bigger government any more, citing President Obama, in speech to Congress on February 24, 2009, calling for spending "not because I believe in bigger government - I don't."
He also cites a Gallup poll at the end of 2009 indicating that "conservatism was twice as popular among Americans as Liberalism."
Still, it's clear that Mr. Tyrrell thinks that there is room for conservatism to advance further, and he has some ideas for making it happen.
The comeback will begin, he says, at the "archipelago of public policy think tanks," among them the American Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute, Heritage, Hoover, Hudson, and Cato. It will be amplified by what he calls New Media: talk radio, Fox News, and the Internet.
Toward the end of the book, he endorses some policy ideas himself, including a cap on federal spending at 20% of GDP, a flat tax, personal retirement accounts as part of Social Security, tort reform, a mix of charter schools and school vouchers, and tax credits to encourage the use of natural gas. On national defense, he proposes a Tyrrell Doctrine that "recognizes that it is too costly and difficult to plant democracy on the unwelcoming soil of countries that have no sympathy for it, for instance, Iraq or Afghanistan." That's another point on which Mr. Tyrrell would find common ground with a lot of left-wingers.
Mr. Tyrrell's value is almost not so much his tactical suggestions but his example, and his conviction that ideas matter in politics. "Hayek's insights in the 1940s, based on the ideas of classical liberals, led years later to the political triumphs of Thatcher and Ronald Reagan," he writes.
"There can be no lasting political change without cultural change," he says. So, conservatives should "take an interest in each other's work" - review each other's books, analyze each other's ideas, act as "colleagues in a cause."
Mr. Tyrrell has been doing this, with rhetorical flair - this book includes the words rastaquouère and scortatory - and humor, for quite some time now.
The humor is one of Mr. Tyrrell's signal contributions to his side's cause in the battle of ideas. Figuring conservatives were facing a period in "the wilderness" after the 2008 election, Mr. Tyrrell ordered 400 copies of the L.L. Bean catalog for distribution at the American Spectator's annual dinner: "Properly attired, we might not find the wilderness so bad."
This book is worth the price simply for the laughs in the two paragraphs dealing with Senator Biden, as a vice presidential candidate, insisting his ticket's priority was "a three-letter word, jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs," and also giving an interview to Katie Couric in which he claimed Roosevelt was president during the 1929 crash and that afterward FDR immediately "got on television" to address the American people.
As for getting conservatives to pull together, Mr. Tyrrell doesn't mention it in the book, but he has done his own part by hosting for the American Spectator a long-running series of weekday dinners in New York and Washington under the rubric of the "Saturday Evening Club." If the dinners alone haven't mitigated the "petty competitiveness" or "debilitating rivalries" on the right, well, perhaps the prospect of a second term for President Obama with a Democratic majority in Congress will.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
A Good Read
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"After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery," by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is an insightful, refreshing, and optimistic, review of American conservatism. This book does not just talk about the problems that plague conservatism in the U.S. today, but instead reveals how those problems developed over time, and what can and should be done about them. Tyrrell's book is a refreshing antidote for those conservatives who are worn out and discouraged by today's political landscape. In fact, some may view Tyrrell as too optimistic, given today's political trends. However, Tyrrell confronts such discouragement with conservatism's historical record, as well as the large infrastructure in American today that supports a conservative agenda. In addition, Tyrrell points out that as Liberalism (with a capital L) in American leans more radically left, that an increasing number of Americans continue to identify as conservative.
Although I would recommend this book to virtually anyone who cares about today's political trends and challenges, I must also admit that Tyrrell's style of writing was at times hard to follow. He often simultaneously combines two to three thoughts or points into one sentence. In addition, Tyrrell does get caught up in a rather extended tribute to one of the conservative movement's great leaders, which at times seems a bit out of context in this book. However, for those readers who can wade through the run-on sentences, and who are willing to be subject to a lengthy personal tribute of William F. Buckley, Jr., this book is a treasure-trove of American conservatism's history and present-day status. In addition, it is presented with wit, humor, insight, and hope for the future.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Show on Conservatism
By Avid Reader
I can honestly say that I finished this book in one night- the same night it was delivered to my house! Tyrrell did a fine job for speaking for all the conservatives out there. He states that for conservatives - a group that for Tyrell includes those with "shared enthusiasm for constitutionally limited government, the rule of law, and free markets that spread prosperity and preserve freedom," those who stand "for liberty, the Bill of Rights, and the mild tug of traditions" - times are tough today.
Toward the end of the book, he endorses some policy ideas himself, including a cap on federal spending at 20% of GDP, a flat tax, personal retirement accounts as part of Social Security, tort reform, a mix of charter schools and school vouchers, and tax credits to encourage the use of natural gas. On national defense, he proposes a Tyrrell Doctrine that "recognizes that it is too costly and difficult to plant democracy on the unwelcoming soil of countries that have no sympathy for it, for instance, Iraq or Afghanistan. But that's another story. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, being a Conservative myself. I give it 5 stars!
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their [...] book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255 : "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."
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