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TO understand today’s America, it’s essential to know why so many reasonable and intelligent people rejected the liberal orthodoxy of the Sixties and Seventies. In Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys (Threshold, 291 pp., $23), editor Mary Eberstadt has assembled 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.

If we want the next generation to be able to articulate their gratitude for the American heritage, it’s going to be up to their parents to teach them about it. (The schools? Fuhgeddaboudit.) There’s a great deal of useful advice on this in How to Raise an American: 1776 Fun and Easy Tools, Tips, and Activities to Help Your Child Love This Country (Crown Forum, 320 pp., $22.95), by Myrna Blyth and Chriss Winston.

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Michael Potemra

Michael Potemra was a literary editor for National Review.

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TO understand today’s America, it’s essential to know why so many reasonable and intelligent people rejected the liberal orthodoxy of the Sixties and Seventies. In Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys (Threshold, 291 pp., $23), editor Mary Eberstadt has assembled 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.

If we want the next generation to be able to articulate their gratitude for the American heritage, it’s going to be up to their parents to teach them about it. (The schools? Fuhgeddaboudit.) There’s a great deal of useful advice on this in How to Raise an American: 1776 Fun and Easy Tools, Tips, and Activities to Help Your Child Love This Country (Crown Forum, 320 pp., $22.95), by Myrna Blyth and Chriss Winston.