The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism with Matthew Continetti, Part 1

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon speaks with journalist and author Matthew Continetti about the evolving history of conservatism over the past one hundred years. Continetti has spent the past few years researching and writing about the American Right. History is the study of change, and Continetti’s book leads readers through the changing landscape of America as it has shaped conservative politics since 1920. Sharon and Matthew talk about Abraham Lincoln, the public embracement of Republican leadership after World War I, immigration, the constitution as an anchor for the Republican Party, and more in this first part of a two-part conversation.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome, always delighted to have you along and today we are going to dive into a fascinated conversation with Matthew Kontanetti who is the author of a new book called The Right,
0:13.3	the 100-year war for American conservatism.
0:16.4	And if you love presidents, if you love history,
0:19.2	government, politics, fun facts, gosh, there is so much to glean from this conversation so let's dive in.
0:27.3	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:33.0	I am to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:39.0	I am super excited to have Matthew Connetty with me today. There is so much material here that I know everybody is going to just have a bunch of little
0:45.8	brain tangle, mind-blown moments. Thank you so much for doing this. Thank you for having me. It's a
0:50.0	pleasure to be here. I would love for you to start with an introduction
0:53.4	and tell people who you are, and more
0:56.9	about the book that you've written,
0:59.4	that we're going to use the jumping off point
1:00.9	to talk about the American right. Sure. Well I've been a journalist in
1:06.7	Washington DC for 20 years covering politics and policy but over the years I developed a interest in history.
1:15.4	I was a history major in college.
1:17.2	At the American Enterprise Institute
1:19.1	where I'm a senior fellow, I spent the past few years
1:21.3	writing this book, The Right, The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism,
1:26.1	which is really telling the story of American conservatism since the 1920s up to today.
1:32.0	And that's become my passion is telling the story and teaching it
1:35.8	where I can and writing about it whenever I have the opportunity.
1:40.1	Mm.
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