Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative-Quality Guarantee

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In a powerful and deeply personal memoir David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicleshis rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break withit.

David Brock pilloried Anita Hill in a bestseller. His reporting in The AmericanSpectator as part of the infamous “Arkansas Project” triggered the course of eventsthat led to the historic impeachment trial of President Clinton. Brock was at thecenter of the right-wing dirty tricks operation of the Gingrich era—and a true believer—until he could no longer deny that the political force he was advancing was builton little more than lies, hate, and hypocrisy.

In Blinded By the Right, Brock, whocame out of the closet at the height of his conservative renown, tells his rivetingstory from the beginning, giving us the first insider’s view of what Hillary RodhamClinton called “the vast right-wing conspiracy.” Whether dealing with the right-wingpress, the richly endowed think tanks, Republican political operatives, or the PaulaJones case, Brock names names from Clarence Thomas on down, uncovers hidden links,and demonstrates how the Republican Right’s zeal for power created the poisonouspolitical climate that culminated in George W. Bush’s election.

With a new afterword by the author, Blinded By the Right is a classic politicalmemoir of our times.