The Conservative Crack-up, by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (Simon & Schuster, 319 pp., $23)
THE TITLE of R. Emmett Tyrrell’s new book may puzzle some American readers, as it will surely puzzle readers elsewhere. A conservative crack-up? In Western European elections, conservatives have done better than any other parties, and Eastern Europeans, offered at last an alternative to Communism, have widely preferred the conservative option. However, Tyrrell’s subject is America, and it is there, he argues, that conservatism has come to grief and missed its destiny.
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