Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring)

Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring)
by Dinesh D'Souza

Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring)
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Author: Dinesh D'Souza
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-12
ISBN: 0465017347
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Basic Books

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Summary: 5 Stars

Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant who served as an author of the Dartmouth Review during his days at the college, and subsequently became a policy analyst for President Ronald Reagan. He is one of the leaders of modern intellectual conservatism, much to the ire of old Dartmouth alumni.

When I picked up "Letters to a Young Conservative", I described myself as a "skeptical conservative". I supported private industry, but also liked minimum wage; I supported tax cuts, but also wanted more welfare spending; I opposed affirmative action, but only because it was being mismanaged. In short, I liked both liberal ideals and conservative ideals, and wanted to take both sides.

D'Souza destroyed my addiction to fence-hopping. He's an excellent, witty writer; even the sections of the book which themes I took no interest in prior, such as feminism, held my attention the whole time. I agreed with every sentence, and only put the book down to get a drink.

Let me give you an example. Before, I was skeptical about President Abraham Lincoln. I admired that he freed the slaves, but did not fancy the fact that he was racist himself; or that his war efforts were so destructive; or that he imprisoned so many people during wartime. In but maybe 20 pages, D'Souza turned me into an adamant fan of Lincoln.

Many conservatives are afraid to make the jump to the right-wing, because they still have doubts in the back of their mind that maybe welfare is better for society; that maybe affirmative action is necessary to end racial disparity; that maybe gun control protects our freedoms. If you are one of those, I strongly recommend you read this book to cross the chasm.

Summary of Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring)

Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his best-selling expos? Illiberal Education. Now, after serving as a Reagan White House staffer, the managing editor of Policy Review, and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution, he addresses the next generation in Letters to a Young Conservative. Drawing on his own colorful experiences, both within the conservative world and while skirmishing with the left, D'Souza aims to enlighten and inspire young conservatives and give them weapons for the intellectual battles that they face in high school, college, and everyday life. Letters to a Young Conservative also illuminates the enduring themes that for D'Souza anchor the conservative position: not "family values" or patriotism, but a philosophy based on natural rights and a belief in universal moral truths.With a light touch, D'Souza shows that conservatism needn't be stodgy or defensive, even though it is based on preserving the status quo. To the contrary, when a conservative has to expose basic liberal assumptions to scrutiny, he or she must become a kind of imaginative, fun-loving, forward-looking guerrilla--philosophically conservative but temperamentally radical.Among the topics Dinesh D'Souza covers in Letters to a Young Conservative: Fighting Political CorrectnessAuthentic vs. Bogus MulticulturalismWhy Government Is the ProblemWhen the Rich Get RicherHow Affirmative Action Hurts BlacksThe Feminist MistakeAll the News That FitsHow to Harpoon a LiberalThe Self-Esteem HoaxA Republican Realignment?Why Conservatives Should Be Cheerful

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