Pat Buchanan biography out now!
The Crusader: the Life and Times of Pat Buchanan is now available for purchase. It’s a biography of one of America’s greatest conservative polemicists – a man who wrote speeches for Nixon and Reagan, coined the phrase “silent majority”, declared a “cultural war” against liberalism in the 1990s, and ran three incredible presidential campaigns that turned US politics on its head. It’s a book with a wonderful cast - Barry Goldwater, Sarah Palin, Mel Gibson, Rachel Maddow. It's funny, exciting, controversial, and occasionally sad. Left and Right have been generous in their praise. Paul Gottfried called it “the authoritative biography of a fascinating public figure”. Lizabeth Cohen said it was “not only fascinating biography [but] very important history.” Order it on AMAZON.
New collection of essays on American liberalism
Making Sense of American Liberalism: Taking the pulse of the left in contemporary politics is out in May. Published by the University Press of Illinois, this is a collection of essays that I co-edited on the past and future of US liberalism. Authors include Tony Badger, Lizabeth Cohen, Susan Hartmann, Nelson Lichtenstein, Doug Rossinow, and Timothy Thurber. My own essay is on socialist activism in the 1970s. Steve Gillon of History Channel fame calls it "an impressive collection [that] pulls together an all-star roster of prominent historians and promising younger scholars to make an important contribution to our understanding of postwar liberalism."
News
The video of my book launch was shown on C-Span recently and is available to watch here. I've also been writing a lot about Pat Buchanan's dismissal from MSNBC, and you can find an example here.
Otherwise, I'm living in Washington for the next few weeks, publicizing my new book and blogging about the US election for the Daily Telegraph (you can read my posts here). If anyone spots me in the street, I hope they'll say hi. I continue to do lots of radio and TV and, of course, to write. As well as working for the Daily Telegraph, I've also started to write for CNN. A couple of notable recent articles include this discussion of why the UK is so keen to import American democracy and this character study of Newt Gingrich. A piece I wrote about Matt Drudge went amazingly viral, but the thing I'm most proud of is this sympathetic treatment of the origins of the Christian Spiritualist movement. My grandmother was a table rapper. Finally, do sign up for email alerts. They mostly concern my new book. It’s a biography of Pat Buchanan and you can find details and advance reviews here. Anything that both Adam Clymer AND Paul Gottfried like has got to be good, right? |