True conservatives have watched with dismay in recent years as the Republican Party, once the paragon of fiscal conservatism, has thrown its most cherished principles overboard. Today’s Republican Party has taken up the cause of Big Government with all the gusto of the most profligate Democrat – and Republicans have proven to be even more irresponsible with taxpayer money than the Democrats. In Buck Wild: How Republicans Blew the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government, Stephen A. Slivinski explains how this happened – and how the Republican Party can and must be recaptured for economic responsibility.