| The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society Subjects: Conservatism -- United States; United States -- Politics and government; United States -- Economic conditions; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States; Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices? Mark A. Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. He is the author of American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy . |