Back to Basics for the Republican Party

SEATTLE/ Conservative Monitor -- "Back to Basics for the Republican Party", a book by Michael Zak, is a history of the Grand Old Party from the Republican point of view. Mr. Zak's stated purpose is to "enable Republicans to retake the policy initiative by recounting how the party of the Emancipation Proclamation and 'forty acres and a mule' developed, step by step, into today's Republican Party".

Though "Back to Basics for the Republican Party" is a history book, it is not only about the past. It is about right now. To quote from page six: "As knowledge is power, we must understand how trends from the past entrap us today. To bring this point home, the final chapter of the book is an analysis of current issues from an historical perspective.

George Orwell observed that "whoever controls the past controls the future". Certain undisputed, but little known facts of American history illustrate this point. For example, few people know that during the Reconstruction era the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party, or that Republicans backed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act much more than did the Democrats. How many people know that after being arrested for casting a ballot in the 1872 election, Susan B. Anthony boasted to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she had voted a straight Republican ticket? The Republican elephant symbol, incidentally, predates the Thomas Nast cartoon by 14 years, having first appeared during Lincoln's 1860 campaign, to show our party's strength; and the Democrat donkey began as a caricature of Democrat President Andrew Jackson, as a jackass.

All this and more is spelled out in "Back to Basics for the Republican Party", by Michael Zak. Informative and interesting, this book is destined to be a well thumbed reference on every true republican's desktop.

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