Penn Kemble, Author at The American Spectator

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Blumenthal: New Age Gooney Bird

by Penn Kemble | May 22, 2015

The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: From Conservative Ideology to Political PowerSidney Blumenthal/Times Books/$19.95 (Reviewed by Penn Kemble in our September 1986 issue) Sidney Blumenthal is the jaundiced eye through which the Washington Post views the politics and culture of the…