Bringing American Home: How American Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back
Tom Pauken is a former Ronald Reagan official, long time Republican activist but a conservative with a Capital "C" who is not afraid to name names and kicks butt. Actually, a lot of butts, especially those from the Bush Administrations (I and II). And a true Goldwater Republican:
But the American Proposition rests on the more traditional conviction that there are truths; that they can be known; that they must be held; for, if they are not held, assented to, consented to, worked into the texture of institutions, there can be no hope of founding a true City, in which men may dwell in dignity, peace, unity, justice, well-being, freedom.
That is why the Christian ethic is at the core of the belief system of a truly free society.
He will be our guest on GrokTALK! August 6 to talk about his history in the Reagan and Bush administrations and the struggle between those supporting a true conservativism vs "the neocons". I am still reading the book and will post a few thoughts as I mosey through. In the mean time, here are a few other reviews and his talk at Heritage:
