We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Tishenski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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Today I'm joined by Matthew Contanetti.

He's a Cedr Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, but most importantly for the purposes

of this interview, he is the author of the right, 100-year war American conservatism.

It's a new book.

It's out.

You should absolutely be sure to obtain your copy because it's a fascinating read.

Matthew, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

It's good to be here.

So the book spans the breadth of, I guess, what we call now, the conservative movement

and more broadly the conservatism in the United States.

It's focused heavily on the 20th century, although you go now into where things have taken

a turn and maybe a turn back to prior trends, which is really interesting.

There's no way that we could cover all the ground in the book.

I don't even know how you covered all of the ground in the book.

But I do have a lot of questions because I found it really interesting.

I wanted to say, if you could start by talking about, talk to us a little bit about why you

think the, let's say, the Coolidge and the Hovers are, Coolidge and the Hovers are a good

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