Crisis of the Two Constitutions - by Charles R Kesler (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"If Conservatism is to succeed and thrive, it must return to its American roots (not Burke or the common law, or Kirk and traditionalism, or libertarianism and Hayek) Donald Trump understands, in a common sense and political way, the principles of the Founding and how they should be applied to forge a new governing coalition. The neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has more in common with progressivism than with the American Founding. Politics is not "downstream from culture" because politics, especially political foundings, create the culture of a country. Multiculturalism and identity politics, and their notion of group rights, is incompatible with the nation state, citizenship, and the protection of rights as America's Founders those things"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>American politics grows embittered because it is increasingly torn between two rival constitutions, two opposed cultures, two contrary ways of life. American conservatives rally around the founders' Constitution, as amended and as grounded in the natural and divine rights and duties of the Declaration of Independence. American liberals herald their "living Constitution," a term that implies that the original is dead or superseded, and that the fundamental political imperative is constant change or transformation (as President Obama called it) toward a more and more perfect social democracy ruled by a Woke elite. <p/><i>Crisis of the Two Constitutions</i> details how we got to and what is at stake in our increasingly divided America. It takes controversial stands on matters political and scholarly, describing the political genius of America's founders and their efforts to shape future generations through a constitutional culture that included immigration, citizenship, and educational policies. Then it turns to the attempted progressive refounding of America, tracing its accelerating radicalism from the New Deal to the 1960s' New Left to today's unhappy campus nihilists. Finally, the volume appraises American conservatives' efforts, so far unavailing despite many famous victories, to revive the founders' Constitution and moral common sense. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, what have conservatives learned and where should they go from here? <p/>Along the way, Charles R. Kesler argues with critics on the left and right, and refutes fashionable doctrines including relativism, multiculturalism, critical race theory, and radical traditionalism, providing in effect a one-volume guide to the increasingly influential Claremont school of conservative thought by one of its most engaged, and engaging, thinkers.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Charles Kesler is one of America's foremost conservative intellectuals, and in this hard-hitting, thought-provoking but witty analysis of the United States' present discontents he reminds us why. His laser-like pinpointing of the profound dichotomy between the Founders' constitution and the Progressivists' constitution explains much of what ails America today, but it also provides the key to the way out, when people recognize how profoundly superior the former is to the latter."--Andrew Roberts, author of <i>Churchill: Walking with Destiny</i> <p/>"Despite its conceits of bow-tied eccentricity and rugged individualism, American conservatism too often traffics in lockstep groupthink: Never Trumpers mechanically affirm the idol of Reagan while MAGA boosters indiscriminately applaud Trump's celebrity. What these bitterly opposed factions share is a disregard for the substance of the problems we face -- a candid acknowledgment of which was the key achievement of Trump's revolutionary 2016 campaign. Charles Kesler is one of the few conservatives to transcend the factionalism that distracts us from our problems. He ably connects the legacy of conservative thought to the situation of the present, and he does it with wit and good cheer. This volume is an essential corrective for our desperately distracted time."--Peter Thiel, entrepreneur, investor, and author of <i>Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future</i> <p/>"Almost any one of the thousands of paragraphs herein could be the subject of a three-hour seminar that would seem to pass in an instant. The book traces an elegant arc beginning with the deepest, most erudite Constitutional philosophy and ending with brilliant, novel, and profound political analysis. All the while, it is historically authoritative, cool, balanced, and witty. Herein you will find striking revelations about the deepest and most complicated roots of the American experiment, as well as masterful, often magisterial, historical and contemporary political analysis. No one loves the Constitution more than Charles Kesler, except perhaps James Madison." --Mark Helprin</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Charles R. Kesler is editor of the <i>Claremont Review of Books</i> and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. He is the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, the author of <i>I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism</i>, and the coeditor, with William F. Buckley, Jr., of <i>Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought</i>. His edition of <i>The Federalist Papers</i> is the best-selling one in the country. In 2017, <i>Politico</i> magazine named Kesler to its annual Politico 50 list of "the key thinkers, doers, and visionaries who are reshaping American politics and policy," and in 2018 the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation awarded him a Bradley Prize.</p>
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