In Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys.TO understand today's America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. , it's essential to know why so many reasonable and intelligent people rejected the liberal orthodoxy or·tho·dox·y n. pl. or·tho·dox·ies 1. The quality or state of being orthodox. 2. Orthodox practice, custom, or belief. 3. Orthodoxy a. of the Sixties and Seventies. In Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle chronicle, official record of events, set down in order of occurrence, important to the people of a nation, state, or city. Almanacs, The Congressional Record in the United States, and the Annual Register in England are chronicles. Their Political Journeys (Threshold, 291 pp., $23), editor Mary Eberstadt has assembled as·sem·ble v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. twelve essays from writers who undertook that long march rightward. Together, they paint a convincing portrait of how mainstream liberalism lost its hold on American political culture. |
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