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Washington, DC—Campaign 2008 is pleased to announce that former Congressman and current Faculty Director Mickey Edwards has released a critically acclaimed book assessing conservatism in America.
RECLAIMING CONSERVATISM: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost – And How It Can find Its Way Back, is a critique of Edward’s assessment that American conservatism has gradually moved beyond defining principles such as limited government and individual freedoms in favor of social traditionalism and the preservation of national security at all costs. The book was published through Oxford University Press in March.
Edward’s book “combines a knowledge of politics and policy with an intellectually sophisticated framework,” said Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. “This book should be read by every politician, and especially every presidential candidate, who pontificates on the American political system and the U.S. Constitution.”
Edwards served sixteen years in Congress representing Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional district until 1993. A founding member of the Heritage Foundation and former chairman of the American Conservative Union, Edwards holds a bachelor’s in journalism and a juris doctorate. He has taught government and journalism at Harvard and Georgetown universities and currently lectures at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Edwards will serve as Faculty Director at the Republican National Convention for Campaign 2008.
The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars' Campaign 2008: The Presidential Academic Seminar Series is a set of academic seminars covering the 2008 presidential race to the 2009 inauguration. The program engages students directly in the political process and includes opportunities to attend the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the swearing in of the 44th President of the United States in January.
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