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03438aam a2200397 i 4500 001 9D9E9F1E433B11EF824246BD21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240716010423 008 240412s2024 nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2024012351 020 $a 125062116X 020 $a 9781250621160 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JC573.2.U6 $b C652 2024 082 00 $a 320.520973 $2 23/eng/20240529 100 1 $a Conason, Joe, $e author. 245 14 $a The longest con : $b how grifters, swindlers, and frauds hijacked American conservatism / $c Joe Conason ; foreword by George T. Conway III. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2024. 300 $a xi, 303 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index. 505 0 $a The Role Model -- The Profits of Paranoia -- "Experts" and Patrioteers -- The Wizard of Id -- Nixon's Avaricious Avengers -- Feeding the "Conservative" Hogs -- Profits (and Prophets) Without Honor -- Let Us Prey -- Spilling the Tea Party -- How Not to Get Rich Quick (or Cure Cancer, Ever) -- In Very Bad Faith -- The King of the Con Men -- A Predatory Presidency -- Guns, Walls, and the Culture of Impunity -- Is the Big Lie the Biggest Grift? 520 $a "A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise - and why Donald Trump became the living emblem of the American right's moral decay. The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose checkered career and tawdry retinue, including his presidential cabinet, have featured almost every variety of scam. But long before he appeared, Trump's path to power was blazed by the motley horde of swindlers and quacks who preceded him. From the "professional anti-communists" (whose tactics even J. Edgar Hoover despised) to the "populist" grifters of the Tea Party movement and the religious charlatans of the "prosperity gospel" (who provided a pious front for Trump), the right-wing ripoff has remained remarkably consistent, even as personalities change and new technologies emerge: Stir up anger and resentment, demonize political opponents, promise vengeance, and collect donations from the gullible. It's a highly lucrative game that any unscrupulous charlatan can play, as many have - and they are named in these pages. In an unsparing and often comic narrative, Joe Conason explores the right's long, steep descent into a movement whose principal aim is not to protect freedom or defend the Constitution, but merely to line the pockets of pretenders and blowhards whose malevolent tactics now endanger the nation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 650 0 $a Conservatism $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Political corruption $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Right-wing extremists $z United States. 650 0 $a Swindlers and swindling $z United States. 650 0 $a Fraud $x Social aspects $z United States. 700 1 $a Conway, George T., $e author of foreword. 941 $a 2 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240717011321.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716063109.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D9E9F1E433B11EF824246BD21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search