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Right to Left

by Daniel McCarthy | May 15, 2008

A Conservative History of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn (Crown Forum, 480 pages, $27.50) Daniel J. Flynn is one of the Right’s rising stars. Still under 40, he has produced three books, each more perspicacious than the last….

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No More Mr. Nice Guy

by Daniel McCarthy | Nov 4, 2003

His ancestry is Transylvanian and one colleague says he has “something of the night about him,” but Michael Howard is not Count Dracula, no matter how much Britain’s frothing tabloids may compare him to the fabled bloodsucker. Howard is a…