Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the

Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century

A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of Americaâ€™s political soul through the lives of six political figuresâ€”from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchensâ€”who abandoned the left and joined the right.

In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political figures whose journeys away from the left reshaped the contours of American politics in the twentieth century. By going deep into the minds of six apostatesâ€”Whittaker Chambers, James Burnham, Ronald Reagan, Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz, and Christopher Hitchensâ€”Oppenheimer offers an unusually intimate history of the American left, and the rightâ€™s reaction.

Oppenheimer is a brilliant new voice in political history who has woven together the past centuryâ€™s most important movements into a single book that reveals the roots of American politics. Through the eyes of his six subjects, we see America grow, stumble, and forge aheadâ€”from World War I up through the Great Depression and World War II, from the Red Scare up through the Civil Rights Movement, and from the birth of neoconservatism up through 9/11 and the dawn of the Iraq War.

At its core, Exit Right is a book that asks profound questions about why and how we come to believe politically at allâ€”on the left or the right. Each of these six lives challenges us to ask where our own beliefs come from, and what it might take to change them. At a time of sky-high partisanship, Oppenheimer breaks down the boundaries that divide us and investigates the deeper origins of our politics. This is a book that will resonate with readers on the left and the rightâ€”as well as those stuck somewhere in the middle.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-02-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416589709

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-02-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416589709

Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century

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