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Title: Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right by Gregory L. Schneider ISBN: 0-8147-8108-X Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.43 (7 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: This is a very flawed study which tells only half the story,
Comment: Except for the chapter describing conservatism's very early days, the rest of this work is very disappointing. It does not describe YAF as I and others knew it. YAF was the center of what became the American political conservative movement. Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan represented the mainstream. Within YAF, it was typified by our two greatest National Chairmen: David A. Keene of the University of Wisconsin the the late 1960s, and especially Dr. Ronald F. Docksai of New York University in the early 1970s. These were the two active as well as intelligent young conservative leaders. The others were glorified "young Republicans" and various flake-blowhards. However, too little is said about how Keene and Docksai built up YAF into something big and active. Dr. Schneider gives us a very flawed study with only half the story. He also mistakenly associates "reactionaries" like youthful followers of George Wallace with YAF. However, it was Keene and Docksai who effectively purged the Wallace-types and reactionaries from YAF; and perhaps ruthlessly at times. Yet, Schneider misses all of this. He tells the story only from the standpoint of the ARMCHAIR-libertarians (versus the CAMPUS-libertarians---with whom I associate myself). Keene and Docksai were too close to the William Buckley family, but they nevertheless successfully built up young conservatives into something different than and opposed to the John Birchers or religion-fanatics with all their intolerant hangups. It is clear to me Schneider must be too young to have really experienced any of this, or at least his book is lacking. -Ralph Fucetola

Rating: 1
Summary: Dull; humorless; revisionist; but very meager.
Comment: Handsomely "covered," of the hardcopy's 288 pages, only 182 are actual written text. Comprising what's left are "chapter notes" of meandering accuracy and arguable interest.

As YAF's longest serving National Chairman, i.e., retiring in 1975; my name is correctly in this book's citations, which are otherwise amazingly inaccurate. I ascribe this to never having been interviewed by the author, nor as I learn were other more important but equally active young conservative alumnae.

For those of us who actually lived through the brief period described, this book is "history"-lite. Lamely written, but flagrantly inaccurate was Mr. Schneider's description of YAF's profoundest success: its singularly conceived grassroots-campaign against selling STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGIES to (then) Soviet-dominated economies, the keystone of which becoming YAF's final success with IBM. Schneider tells it otherwise, yet in a fashion less provocative than somnalent....To describe YAF during the period 1968 to 1978 without a large portion devoted to Hon. James L. Buckley, and the unique ad hoc YAF youth movement organized by Herbert Stupp in New York, is to watch opera without music. I could go on, but this book grows ever more boring justthinking about it.

It reads like a foreign student's Masters Thesis submitted to an American university's faculty-committee with little to no knowledge of politics or "conservatives"; and badly "Englished" by its northern Korean translaters.

Someday someone will write an interesting, accurate history of the brief but ideologically formative epoch this book's cover pretends to encase. That day has not yet arrived.

Rating: 2
Summary: lacking important information
Comment: if you want a complete history on yaf you will have wait