Catch the Falling Flag: A Republican’s Challenge to His Party, by Richard J. Whalen (Houghton-Mifflin, 308 pp., $6.95)
In the year or two before Richard Nixon won the last Republican presidential nomination, a cadre of issues-oriented young conservatives repaired, one by one, to his banner. This group set the political and ideological tone of his struggle for the nomination and, to a somewhat lesser degree, for the general election against Hubert Humphrey. They were divided on many individual issues, but shared the belief that the country needed a substantial turn to the right of what had gone before. The group included Martin Anderson, Patrick Buchanan, Alan Greenspan, Richard Whalen, Richard Allen, John Sears, Kevin Phillips, William Gavin and a few spear-carriers, including this reviewer.
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