Books in Brief: Right Turn

Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics, by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers (Hill & Wang, 276 pp., $19.95)

Talk about inside stories. Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Rogers are associate professors and contributors to The Nation, and their political views, which are so deeply engrained they scarcely bother to assert, much less argue them, are what you would expect: FDR was a sly dog who did socialism out of its birthright; and so forth, and so on. Yet their book, an analysis of the 1984 election and of recent politics generally, is written less from a leftist perspective than from a conspiratorial-

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics, by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers (Hill & Wang, 276 pp., $19.95)

Talk about inside stories. Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Rogers are associate professors and contributors to The Nation, and their political views, which are so deeply engrained they scarcely bother to assert, much less argue them, are what you would expect: FDR was a sly dog who did socialism out of its birthright; and so forth, and so on. Yet their book, an analysis of the 1984 election and of recent politics generally, is written less from a leftist perspective than from a conspiratorial-