Harry Stein is a very good writer.
How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: (and Found Inner Peace) (Paperback)
by Harry Stein
http://www.amazon.com/Accidentally-Joined-Vast-Right-Wing-Conspiracy/dp/0060936975/ref=sr_1_1/103-7964298-8869406?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186404948&sr=1-1
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Conservatives aren’t born—they evolve. And for Wall Street Journal ethics columnist Harry Stein—once vilified in The Village Voice as “a well-known asshole”—that evolution began with the birth of his daughter. But Stein’s memoir on transforming from bleeding-heart liberal to someone who gets junk mail from Patrick Buchanan isn’t a sappy tale of fatherhood; it’s a witty, intelligent account of how one man began to think for himself. “I remember when I was called a fascist for the first time,” Stein writes about a dinner conversation in which he sided with Dan Quayle over the Murphy Brown/single-motherhood controversy. While alienating his left-leaning friends, Stein takes to task The New York Times, AIDS hysteria, men-hating feminists, and Bill Clinton, just to mention a few bastions of liberalism that contributed to his social makeover. As if to prove he didn’t start out this way, Stein spends a great deal of time trying to convince the reader of his liberal roots. His wife, a former story editor for a major motion picture company, once belonged to a group called Women Against Right-Wing Scum. His sexual escapades as a single man (including a trip to a New York “swap” club) make up a whole chapter. He also writes of his admiration for Tennessee Williams (whom he once interviewed) as if to say, “See, I am not a homophobe.”
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