Veering Right: How the Bush [W] Administration Subverts the Law for Conservative Causes, by Charles Tiefer, 2004, UCLA Press
Chapter 5 title is simply “The Corruption”
nice bibliography and footnotes and index
Jacket copy starts “In this searing indictment…
Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement, by Nicole Hoplin and Ron Robinson, 2008, Regnery Publishing
Evil people (“heroes” not) names cited:
William Volker and his nephew Harold Luhnow, Henry Regnery, William F. Buckley Jr., Dean Clarence “Pat” Manion, Anthony Fisher, Gerald “Spike” Hennessy, Joseph Coors Sr. (think he was a Bircher), John Engalitcheff, The Kitchen Cabinet 3 – Holmes Tuttle, Henry Salvatori, and A.C. “Cy” Rubel
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb, by David C. Cassidy, 2009
back jacket text:
“An excellent follow up on Cassidy’s earlier masterwork, Uncertainty. Cassidy offers deep insight into Heisenberg’s role as a principal founder of quantum mechanics and as the leading German physicist during the WWII years in the quest for atomic energy and weapons. A valuable book, intended for a broad audience of enlightened readers without technical background. I recommend it also for the insights it offers to today’s domestic and international challenges.”
– Benjamin Bederson, Physics Professor Emeritus, NYU, and Manhattan Project member.
Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust, by Theodore S. Hamerow, 2008
Haven’t read yet, about 500 pages and I’m not sure I can take knowing the stupid reasons why the Holocaust was not stopped. Library renewals ran out so will have to give in another try later.
The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and its Times, by Jeffrey Hart, 2005, published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI Books)
From the jacket copy:
“National Review has been the leading conservative national magazine since it was founded in 1955, and in that capacity it has played a decisive role in shaping the conservative movement in the United States….Jeffrey Hart provides an authoritative and high-spirited history of how the magazine has come to define and defend conservatism for the past fifty years. He also gives a first-hand account of the thought and sometimes colorful personalities–including James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, Russell Kirk, Frank Meyer, William Rusher, Priscilla Buckley, Wittaker Chambers, and, of course, the magazines founder, William F. Buckley, Jr.–who contributed to National Review’s life and wide influence.”
Not entirely biased based on the chapter titled George W. Bush: Transformative President. Though he doesn’t explain why he considered W to be transformative per se, other than disastrous Iraq war which cites W as having told a staffer in January 2001 that he planned to wage that war. He mentions the evangelicalism taking effect with prayer groups forming in the White House immediately. And to his credit, he ponders how conservative and evangelical really work, together or not.