Conservatives without Conscience

Conservatives without Conscience
Conservatives without Conscience  
Author(s) John Dean
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date July 2006
Media type Hardcover/Paperback
Pages 188
ISBN ISBN 0670037745 and ISBN 978-0670037742
OCLC Number 67384273
Dewey Decimal 320.520973 22
LC Classification JC573.2.U6 D43 2006

Conservatives Without Conscience is a book written by John Dean, who served as White House Counsel under U.S. President Richard Nixon and then helped to break the Watergate scandal with his testimony before the United States Senate. The book analyzes the evolution of the Republican Party, and the different forms of conservatism, largely in terms of authoritarian personality. It was published in 2006 by Viking Press.

The book makes extensive use of the research into right-wing authoritarianism of University of Manitoba Professor Robert Altemeyer. The title is a play on The Conscience of a Conservative, a seminal book attributed to Barry Goldwater and ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr.. Dean claims that he and Goldwater had planned to write such a book in the 1980s in response to their disaffection with the religious right.

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