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Title: The Decline and Fall of the Liberal Republicans: From 1952 to the Present by Nicol C. Rae ISBN: 0-19-505605-1 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00

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Summary: an excellent and perceptive book
Comment: Nicol C. Rae's "The Decline and Fall of Liberal Republicans" is a wonderful and perceptive book that details a significant but heretofore not exhaustively discussed phenomenon in recent American politics. Rae's book is the story of a now forgotten class of politicians, like Robert Taft, Jacob Javitz and Elliott Richardson, who encouraged fiscal restraint and personal freedom, but did so in a qualified fashion. Rae details how a far more right-leaning and ruthlessly ideological breed of Republicans supplanted this class of politicians, eventually causing their virtual disappearance from public life. Particularly compelling is Rae's discussion of the reemergence of religion -- especially fundamentalist, Southern religion - in first making liberal Republicans an extreme minority, and then banishing them from the party altogether. This book, particularly read in light of Vermont Senator James Jeffords' defection from the GOP, is remarkably insightful. It could, however, use an updated edition that details the developments of the last several years, many of which would bolster the book's central argument.