The right talk: how conservatives transformed the Great Society into the economic society

The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society. By Mark A. Smith. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007; pp. 267. $29.95 cloth. Mark Smith's agenda is broad: to demonstrate that the political trend favoring conservatives over the past few decades is related substantially to conservative rhetoric capturing the economy as an issue for the Republican Party. Although alternative explanations, such...