*Left Behind* gets a fascinating review by #RubyRayDaily in *#PublicBooks*, where it is contrasted with *Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s* by @pastpunditry:

https://www.publicbooks.org/what-the-1990s-did-to-america/

Both books grapple with how the end of the #ColdWar and the #Reagan era transformed both US parties. In Hemmer's telling, Reagan wasn't the "dawn of the free-market conservative," but rather, the "late summer" of that brand of conservativism.

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