Whiplash! From JFK to Donald Trump, A Political Odyssey

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Event Conservatism

September 27, 2017 Whiplash! From JFK to Donald Trump, A Political Odyssey

Although the political reality of “movement conservatism” is now sixty years old and three generations deep, it remains “a mystery, inside an enigma” to many academic and media commentators. 

Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The Heritage Foundation

214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, DC
20002

Featuring Author

Arnold Steinberg

Arnold Steinberg has taught at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, written hundreds of articles for major American media outlets, and is a frequent television and radio analyst. He has consulted for numerous political campaigns and served on federal, state, and local government commissions. He is the author of two graduate texts, Political Campaign Management: A Systems Approach and The Political Campaign Handbook: Media, Scheduling and Advance.

Description

Although the political reality of “movement conservatism” is now sixty years old and three generations deep, it remains “a mystery, inside an enigma” to many academic and media commentators. As a central figure in the conservative movement for the past fifty years, Arnold Steinberg unwraps this mystery in a comprehensive personal memoir. His entertaining and informative five-decade history of American politics produces an encyclopedia of modern conservatism.

Not only explained are the principles underlying most of modern conservatism, both theoretical and applied, but also the principal figures, the educational and activist organizations as well as many of the operational techniques that have been used to create winning political coalitions. Then, with an eye to the future, Whiplash! concludes with an examination of both the “why” of the “whiplash” of the 2016 presidential election and what the Trump upset may mean for the future of American politics.