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Title: Right from the Beginning by Patrick J. Buchanan, Michael Wells ISBN: 0-7861-0215-2 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wanna know what it was like to be conservative in the 50's?
Comment: Pat Buchanan. The name conjurs up images of a rough and tumble campaigner for elected office, a man that minces no words in regard to his political beliefs. Right From The Beginning puts a strong perspective on growing up in the 50's as a conservative and a typical teenage boy in that era.
Buchanan is sometimes witty, sometimes circumspect, but he is always honest. Conservatives and liberals alike should read this book, if not for the honesty, than for his insightfulness into the world of an adolescent in the greatest peacetime boom in the history of the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book by a great American polemicist
Comment: Warm, witty and inspired, this is commentator/sometime political candidate Pat Buchanan's best book. While his politics are great, what sticks in my mind is his description of the human dimension of growing up conservative, Catholic, and pugnacious in 50s America. Buchanan is a master of the brief and compelling character sketch whether of beloved family members or controversial political figures like Richard Nixon.
Rating: 5
Summary: If only this man had been president
Comment: Pat Buchanan has been labeled everything from dangerous to nazi. This book proves that he is just the opposite: a strongly principled man who wants what's best for his country.
Buchanan explains his conservative beliefs within the framework of growing up the son of a devout Catholic scrapper and the student of tough Jesuit priests. Although he spent much of his childhood raising hell, his upbringing was about morals and care of the soul. In Buchanan's time, care of the soul meant defending American freedom from the encroachment of Leninist communism. He didn't hate the Russians, but the system of government that was devouring half the world's freedom.
To the left-leaning critic who is undoubtedly screaming, "what about America devouring the other half": you're preaching to the choir. Buchanan has consistently asserted that we shouldn't be meddling in other countries' affairs. He recalls traveling to Japan and concluding that we were wrong to indiscriminately A-bomb the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He goes on to say that our president prodded the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor so that he'd have an excuse to enter the war. That's hardly the voice of an imperialistic interventionist.
Nor is Buchanan a cut-throat capitalist. At the end of the book, he talks about an America of morals being infinitely more desireable than an America of laurel-resting decadence. He observes that democracy is by itself an empty vessel that can be filled with evil intentions just as easily as it can with good intentions. The moral fiber of our people, says Buchanan, is what ultimately defines us. Compare our grandparents' generation to ours; Buchanan's point is painfully obvious. To recapture our country, Buchanan insists we recapture education, freedom of religion (rather than tacitly mandated secularism or cowtowing agnosticism), and the Supreme Court. No arguments from me.
Some people have speculated that Buchanan is a closet white supremacist, an accusation which this book shoots down. Having grown up with two black maids, having recoiled at the treatment of a southern black man who couldn't enter a whites-only restaurant to mail a letter, and having a brother who speaks of dog-tagging an equal number of dead white and black Americans in Vietman, Buchanan clearly has no time for racial discrimination. He writes about welfare depriving black Americans of their dignity, and even suggests that an ammendment prohibiting racial discrimination be added to the US Constitution.
Other than the pleasure of glimpsing into the life of a man I greatly respect, I took from this book many lessons about where our new and supposedly more advanced society fails. By deemphasizing personal responsibility and blaming our problems on society, we're creating a generation of excuse-makers and softies. By acquiescing to anybody's ideas and summarily treating all ideas as equal, we replace values with anything-goes. When people don't have something to believe in, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything. There are many more nuggets in this book.
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Title: A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny by Patrick J. Buchanan ISBN: 0895261596 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick J. Buchanan ISBN: B00008RUMV Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 12 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy by Patrick J. Buchanan ISBN: 0316115185 Publisher: Little Brown and Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster by Peter Brimelow ISBN: 0060976918 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 19 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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