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What's
Right? -
By
David Frum
Reviewed by Monty Rainey
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What’s Right is an
impressive medley of previously published essays on various
aspects of political conservatism. Taken from the pages of
such periodicals as The American Spectator, Forbes, The
National Review, and The Wall Street Journal.
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writings by David Frum are divided into three main groups:
politics and politicians; public policy; and the thinkers
whose convictions in one way or another helped shape
contemporary conservatism. Although candidly partisan in his
perspective, the Canadian-born author casts a clear, cold
eye on fellow Tories and their office-seeking antics.
Frum
assesses some of the leading icons of conservatism from Adam
Smith to Newt Gingrich. He examines such current issues as
health care, taxation and crime and details the conservative
solutions from some of the top conservatives of our time.
Contents
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Part
I: Politics and Politicians
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| Who
is Newt Gingrich? |
3 |
| The
Elite Primary |
9 |
| The
Powell Phenomenon |
21 |
| Call
This a Revolution?
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29
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| Righter
Than Newt |
37
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| Pat
Buchanan The
Conservative Bully Boy |
59
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| Good-bye
Pat |
66
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| Beyond
Kemp |
73
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Dead
Wrong
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79
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| Not
So Wild About Harry |
83
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| Part
II: Public Policy |
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| You’re
On Your Won |
95
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| Up
From Subsidy |
99
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| A
New Supply-Side Strategy |
105
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| Compassion
For Taxpayers |
111
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| Working
For the Man |
115
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| What
to do About Health Care |
119
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| Building
Blocks |
133
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| Errors
of Commission |
137
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| The
"Safety Cult" |
141
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| Not
on my Block |
143
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| Not
This Quagmire |
145
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| Even
Canada Needs the Bomb |
147
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| Part
III: Books and Thinkers
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Living
Without the Many Pages Of
my Life
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157
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| The
Legacy of Russell Kirk |
159
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| The
Sensible Philosopher |
171
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| The
Nietzsche of Economics |
177
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| The
Uses of Resentment |
185
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| The
Palaces of Newport |
193
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| Peter
Taylor |
197
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| A
Passover Seder |
199
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