Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-423) and index.

HISTORY -- From Kennebunkport to Crawford -- The Conservative Rout, 1952-1964 -- The Agony of Liberalism, 1964-1988 -- The Fifty-Fifty Nation, 1988-2000 -- ANATOMY -- For Texas, Business and God -- The Rive Droite -- The Brawn -- With Us or Against Us: The Right and the War Against Terror -- PROPHECY -- The Road Ahead: The Path to Republican Hegemony? -- How It Could Go Wrong: Too Southern, Too Greedy and Too Contradictory -- Behind Enemy Lines -- EXCEPTION -- America the Different -- Right from the Beginning: The Roots of American Exceptionalism -- Heresy and Reformation: America's Exceptional Conservatism -- The Melancholy Long Withdrawing Roar of Liberalism.