Book review: After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery

I finished my latest book for the Thomas Nelson Booksneeze program After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery by R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. I thought it would be an interesting read but not so much. Interesting yes, but I literally needed to use my dictionary for almost every page! I learned a little history on the conservative movement and an insight into the 2008 election which was cool. Plus, it talked about how the conservative movement has been declared "dead" many times and keeps coming back and sometimes stronger than ever. Another insight was how inaccurate information that is repeated over and over in the media becomes seemingly accurate as the years go on and it isn't corrected.

Learning about the history and insights into modern politics was interesting but I just couldn't get past the high vocabulary. I'm sure Tyrell fans will love the book, but for a "newbie" it's too much effort to pull out the dictionary for literally every page of the book (for example, "Goldberg joined that lugubrious cadre," "there was less bonhomie among conservatives" and "she suffered an abrupt detumescense.")

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book through the Thomas Nelson Booksneeze program.