Introduction
Chapter 1: The Collapse of the Moderate Republican Establishment,
1960-64
Chapter 2: "Moderation Is No Virtue": The GOP and the Goldwater
Campaign, 1964
Chapter 3: Wresting in the Ruins: Moderates Regain Control of the
Republican Party, 1965
Chapter 4: From Rat Finks to Reagan: Republican Resurgence,
1966
Chapter 5: Moderation's High Tide: George Romney's Rise and Fall,
1967
Chapter 6: Moderate Half-Victories and the Presidential Election of
1968
Chapter 7: Moderates Get a Piece of the Action: Nixon's First Year,
1969
Chapter 8: Clashing with Nixon: The Breakup of the Moderate
Republican Movement, 1970
Chapter 9: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: The Decline and Fall of the
Moderate Republicans, 1971-2011
Conclusion
Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of the National Book Award-nominated The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. He has written for numerous national publications and has been an assistant professor of history at Yale University. He lives outside Washington, DC.
"In Rule and Ruin, his wonderfully detailed new history of moderate
Republicanism, Geoffrey Kabaservice makes a strong case that
moderate Republicanism was hardier than we remember." --Timothy
Noah, The New York Times Book Review
"The good guys lost; the bad guys won. That's the story Kabaservice
sets out to tell in Rule and Ruin. He tells it in strong and
engaging prose, often with a literary flair." --The National
Interest
"Kabaservice is a wonderfully straightforward historian who does
not layer on a lot of interpretive gloss...Rule and Ruin is a
wonderful reminder of what was once -- not very long ago -- a vital
tradition in American politics." --The New Republic
"An audacious and important history that rediscovers a great
political tradition at exactly the moment when it is again needed
most." --David Frum, author of Comeback: Conservatism that Can Win
Again
"The radical turn of the Republican Party into a voice of
right-wing extremism is one of the major themes of modern American
political history. Rule and Ruin tells the whole story in stunning
detail, and in prose that is as balanced as it is lucid. No study
of our recent politics could possibly be more timely on the eve of
the 2012 elections." --Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, author
of The Age of Reagan
"Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Rule and Ruin is
more than an account of the demise of moderate Republicans; it is a
penetrating history of the modern Republican Party over the past
half century. This is an exceptional book, and must reading for
anyone who will follow with interest (or dread) the Republican race
to a presidential nomination in 2012." --Norman J. Ornstein,
Resident Scholar, The American Enterprise Institute
"In this timely work, Geoffrey Kabaservice successfully combines
thorough historical research and a gripping narrative. The result
is a comprehensive account of an ideological and political contest
which, played out over half a century, has had a profound influence
on the Republican Party and modern American politics." --Strobe
Talbott, President, Brookings Institution
"Kabaservice's book is a painstaking and well-argued attempt to
resurrect the losers in the GOP's fratricidal war, the liberal and
moderate Republicans, including many from the northeastern states
where today their influence still lingers." --Sam Tanenhaus, The
New York Review of Books
"Kabaservice ably narrates the Republican Party's fifty-year
conversion from a diverse political organization into an
exclusively conservative 'ideological vehicle.'...Kabaservice
is
as moderate as his subject matter; he resists proposing an
implausibly easy solution. He believes that third-party projects
are likely "foredoomed to failure," and redistricting reforms will
be "a slow process" at best." --Commonwealth
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