Summary
Connects the activities and influence of today's conservative movements to a deliberate shift toward right-wing policies that began during the Carter administration and led to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Full description
- Book one: 1976. "Nibbled to death by ducks"
- "What is an Orrin Hatch?"
- Book two: 1977. "Hi, Jimmy!"
- Iceberg
- Human rights
- "Little hot squat"
- Lancegate
- "The moral womanly woman is alive and well in Mississippi"
- "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"
- Boardroom Jacobins
- Book three: 1978. "Hang Sen. Dick Clark on a telephone pole"
- In which the president of the United States is said to have nearly killed an Indian
- Capital gains
- No one shoots Santa Claus
- "The white, American middle class plus blacks who want the same thing"
- "High and dry"
- Almighty politics
- Election season
- Basements
- Book four: 1979. Conventional wisdom
- Superman
- Christian soldiers
- The "front-runner"
- Energy
- To the mountaintop
- "Refusing to fan the flames of moderation"
- "Do you ever feel that we might be the generation that sees armageddon?"
- Shocks
- Kickoffs
- Patriotisms
- Book five: 1980. "The imam does not often respond"
- "Do you believe in miracles?"
- "Jimmy's depression is gonna be worse than Herbert's"
- "Feed your faith and starve your doubts!"
- Conventions
- "Meanness"
- "A shabby business"
- "Carter is smarter than Reagan".