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Article: Stopping history in New York.(Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party)
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- The American Enterprise
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party By George Marlin St. Augustine's Press, 434 pages, $28
If the idea of a Conservative Party in New York, of all places, strikes you as a gutsy-but-futile attempt at fighting modern liberalism, George Marlin will set you straight. New York's Conservative Party, Marlin points out, is "the only legally recognized conservative political party in the nation," and it has redirected state and national politics to the right on numerous occasions. Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party is a diligently researched book that describes in fine detail how a dedicated group of ...