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I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous
by
Harry Stein
With biting wit and amusing personal anecdotes Harry Stein's I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican chronicles the every day survival of those plucky conservatives marooned in liberal bastions that loathe them, from Manhattan to Hollywood-and even deep bleu France. The result is a conservative's guide to love, work, dinner party mischief and staying un-smeared in...more
Hardcover, 250 pages
Published
June 16th 2009
by Encounter Books
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I enjoyed this book. For any of you who read Mr. Stein's first book (How I joined the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (and found inner peace)) this is sort of a follow up. He relates here how in his first "missive" he assumed that his former friends on the political left would read his reasons for a political shift and even if they did not agree would understand. This is the account of reality setting in...that didn't happen. The title is based on a reaction he got at a dinner party from th...more
Ian
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My brother is a die-hard Conservative, verging towards Libertarian. I am politically agnostic, but I spent my adolescence in the San Francisco Bay Area, my youth in Manhattan, and am currently living in LA working towards a career in the academic study of the liberal arts. On the one hand the dogmatism of my brother's approach is undeniably off-putting in many respects, but the assumptions, intolerance and bigotry which undergird the firmly "Left" areas have proven shocking to me time ...more
This book is a god-send for all conservatives who find themselves living or working in a predominantly liberal environment - Manhattan, San Francisco, academia, journalism, social work, or a myriad other professions or locations where you have to learn how to hid your conservative political outlook. To those of us who are stuck in such places, the stories and anecdotes narrated in this book sound all too familiar, but we are grateful that someone has actually written a book about it. This gives ...more
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Recommends it for:
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my daughter Erica
Harry Stein (perhaps about 60) claims he converted from being a liberal at Berkley to being a lonely conservative on the Upper West Side of NY. I found parts of it not only funny, but also written by someone with a lot of wisdom. Just the jacket cover gives you a sense of the contents: "A survival guide for conservatives marooned among the angry, smug,and terminally self-righteous." One of the better parts was where he laid out some of the liberal set of nearly unquestioned beliefs su...more
Hilarious!!
A great and funny read. Very dry sense of humor that uncovers the liberal for whom they are.
Cassandra Troy
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This was a book of short little anecdotes from a conservative who lives in ultra-liberal Madison, Wisconsin. It really did capture the essence of being a conservative amongst a bunch of liberals in a lot of places and ways, so I appreciated the "you are not alone"-style feeling that it gave me, but it also did irritate me a bit in places, too. I think that's going to be the standard for political books for the next few years, sadly.
Helpful and humorous!
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