Why I Turned Right

ed. Mary Eberstadt

  • Year 2007
  • Type Book
  • Genre autobiography
  • Tradition Catholic
  • Original language English

For For readers interested in how a generation of American writers moved from the left to the right; political memoir rather than religion or theology.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

Autobiographical essays by baby-boom writers who moved to the political right, edited by Eberstadt; of interest for the history of American conservatism more than for faith.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 of 5
  • Scriptural 0 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 3 of 5
  • Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A collection of autobiographical essays edited by Eberstadt and published by Threshold Editions in 2007. Its contributors are writers, editors and humorists of the baby-boom generation who, by their own accounts, ended up on the political right, some to their own surprise; each tells the story of that political journey. The publisher's description stresses that they disagree among themselves on religion, family, sex, stem-cell research, abortion and war. Eberstadt's part is that of editor; it is the only edited volume among her books, and it sits between her first book, Home-Alone America, and the books on religion and the sexual revolution that followed.

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