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A controversial portrait of the thirty-fifth president explores his less-recognized roles in promoting anti-communism, tax cuts, free trade, and other agendas that had distinctly conservative stances

Argues that former US President Ronald Reagan adopted a foreign policy tradition that drew on elements of realism & liberal internationalism: conservative internationalism. This tradition is manifest in the foreign policy choices of Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk, & Harry Truman, who, along with Reagan, are seen to have expanded freedom abroad through the assertive use of military force more than other US presidents. The eleven principal tenets of the conservative internationalist tradition are identified, & it is distinguished from realism & liberal internationalism. These are then illustrated with a look at the policies of Jefferson (vs Alexander Hamilton & realists), Polk (vs Andrew Jackson & nationalists), Truman (vs Franklin Roosevelt & liberal internationalists), & Reagan (vs Jimmy Carter & liberal internationalists & Richard Nixon & realists). What conservative internationalism offers the current debate on terrorism, opportunities for freedom, connection & timing of force & diplomacy, & local democracy is considered. Adapted from the source document.

"Dr. Richard Bishirjian's Conservative Rebellion examines the American conservative movement in light of phases of American history in which the life of the American nation took shape from forces and conditions of the American soul. The author argues that the first phase of our common political life was a rebellion that we call the "Spirit of '76." That rebellion attempted to preserve the practices, traditions, and customary rights of a tradition of self-government that developed during the 140 years of the Colonial era. That first "Conservative Rebellion," erupting in Lexington and Concord, was a conservative rebellion whose spirit shapes American politics and society even today through the American conservative "movement." The author contrasts their rebellion to the revolutionary political religion of President Woodrow Wilson"--

A great deal of recent academic writing claims -- but, more often, assumes -- that the American news media have a predominantly conservative bias, slanting & shaping their coverage in ways that favor right-wing foreign, economic, cultural, & social policies. Two major books pioneered this position & have gone largely uncriticized, despite their immense influence. A detailed examination of Herbert Gans's Deciding What's News & Ben Bagdikian's The Media Monopoly shows, however, that they fall far short of proving their claims about media bias. The logic of many of their arguments is highly problematic, but especially glaring is the almost complete lack of solid evidence in either book as to the purportedly conservative nature of media content. References. Adapted from the source document.