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The Establishment vs. the People, by Richard A. Viguerie (Regnery Gateway, 279 pp., $12.95)

Let’s be honest. There are conservatives who regard Richard Viguerie much as Churchill regarded Charles de Gaulle during World War II (“The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Croix de Lorraine”). For them, his new book will do but little to make him seem a more winning or reliable comrade-in-arms. This observation is not offered gratuitously, for the importance of Mr. Viguerie’s book—which is subtitled “Is a New Populist Revolt on the Way?”—probably lies more in its potentially disjunctive effect on the conservative coalition than in any damage it may cause to its ostensible target, the liberal “establishment.”

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The Establishment vs. the People, by Richard A. Viguerie (Regnery Gateway, 279 pp., $12.95)

Let’s be honest. There are conservatives who regard Richard Viguerie much as Churchill regarded Charles de Gaulle during World War II (“The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Croix de Lorraine”). For them, his new book will do but little to make him seem a more winning or reliable comrade-in-arms. This observation is not offered gratuitously, for the importance of Mr. Viguerie’s book—which is subtitled “Is a New Populist Revolt on the Way?”—probably lies more in its potentially disjunctive effect on the conservative coalition than in any damage it may cause to its ostensible target, the liberal “establishment.”