"It Was All A Lie"

Posted on: August 6, 2020 at 16:22:12 CT

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-525658-45-0

"In reviewing the party’s “Southern strategy” of appealing to former Democrats aggrieved by the civil rights movement, Stevens admits to playing the race card in his first congressional campaign in 1978, when he promoted a rival candidate in a successful effort to split the black vote between the Democratic incumbent and an African-American challenger. He questions the Republican Party’s commitment to family values, fiscal prudence, and intellectual rigor, successfully illustrating the gap between rhetoric and reality. Stevens, who claims to have amassed “the best win-loss record of anyone in my business,” admits to having been duped by Republican candidates who professed conservative principles but abandoned them in order to “embrac[e] a racist unprepared to be president”—a confessional quality that distinguishes this account from others by center-right figures."