Shoreline League of Democratic Women

The SLDW Book of the Month selected by Irene O'Day is "Train Wreck - The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment too Soon) by Bill Press.

In Train Wreck, Bill Press, one of America's best known progressive commentators reveals that, far from betraying conservative ideals, the administration of Georg W. Bush has believed exactly as anyone would expect of a group that believes government is evil and always doomed to failure.

Press traces the history of modern conservative movement from the rise of Robert Taft in the 1940's, through the glory days of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, to the long and agonizing fall of George W. Bush.
This in-depth analysis reveals three very salient facts: hatred of government has been a core value of the conservative movement from it's inception; the behavior of the George W. Bush adminsitration has mirrored that of the Reagan administration in every important way; and, until Hurricane Katrina revealed in 2005 that the emperor had no clothes, conservatives and neo-conservatives were the president's strongest supporters and closest allies.

Trainwreck" will convince you, once and for all, that the conservative movement has remained on track for decades --and that, from the beginning, those tracks were headed for disaster.