Lexington Books
Pages: 312
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-7572-0 • Hardback • April 2018 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
978-1-4985-7573-7 • eBook • April 2018 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
Don Waisanen is associate professor in the Baruch College, CUNY Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Political Transformation as a Pervasive Strategy
Chapter 1: Political Conversion as Manichaean Deduction: Whittaker Chambers’s Witness
Chapter 2: Political Conversion as Intellectual Reduction: Norman Podhoretz’s Breaking Ranks
Chapter 3: Political Conversion as Generational Induction: David Horowitz’s Radical Son
Chapter 4: Political Conversion as Bypassed Seduction: Garry Wills’s Confessions of a Conservative
Chapter 5: Political Transformation in U.S. Politics
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
This book stands out among the many works on political rhetoric, offering an insightful examination of the political conversion narrative through four case studies. Fascinating and well written.
— Renita Coleman, University of Texas