The Death of Conservatism: A Movement and Its Consequences

This prescient work, published in 2009, traces the rise and fall of the modern GOP from the party of Eisenhower and Reagan to the vehicle of insurgency against America’s own history and traditions.

Praise & Reviews

“Will almost certainly prove to be one of those rare books in American history that have a signal impact on both a political movement and the public at large . . . taut, eloquent, provocative, and carefully argued.”
–Michael Beschloss

“A brilliantly penetrating analysis of the conservative movement’s collapse . . . elegant, provocative, and intellectually dazzling.”
–Jane Mayer

“A very original take on the last few decades of American politics. [Tanenhaus] makes us look at everything through a different lens.
–Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books

“An act of intellectual bravery . . . a welcome clarion call.”
–Boston Sunday Globe

“The only original take on contemporary politics I have read, told as a riveting story in high literary style. A cross between a novel by John Updike and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France.”
–Lee Siegel, The Daily Beast