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| − | + | '''''The election of [[Donald Trump]] as president in 2016 was the fulfillment of the vision in this prophetic work.''''' The ''New York Times'' credited this book with the rise of Trump and [[Jeff Sessions]], who was Trump's top nominee for his Cabinet:<ref>[http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/us/politics/jeff-sessions-attorney-general.html Sharon LaFraniere and Matt Apuzzo, "Jeff Sessions, a Lifelong Outsider, Finds the Inside Track," ''New York Times'' (Jan. 6, 2017)].</ref> | |
{{cquote|In high school, ... Mr. Sessions was fascinated by Phyllis Schlafly’s book “A Choice Not an Echo,” a catechism on the split between the Republican Party establishment and its right wing. The book enjoined true conservatives to topple the party’s kingmakers and compromisers, presaging the rise of the [[Tea Party]] and Mr. Trump — and now, Mr. Sessions himself.}} | {{cquote|In high school, ... Mr. Sessions was fascinated by Phyllis Schlafly’s book “A Choice Not an Echo,” a catechism on the split between the Republican Party establishment and its right wing. The book enjoined true conservatives to topple the party’s kingmakers and compromisers, presaging the rise of the [[Tea Party]] and Mr. Trump — and now, Mr. Sessions himself.}} | ||
Revision as of 20:16, January 16, 2017
A Choice, Not An Echo is a book by Phyllis Schlafly published in 1964, which became an instant classic of conservative political writing. It describes the perennial struggle between the Establishment and conservative wings in nominating the Republican Party candidate for president.
Description of volume
The book was written in 1964, and created space within the Republican Party for the modern conservative movement that would more fully define itself by stopping the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. The book helped secure the remarkable nomination of the firebrand Barry Goldwater for President of the United States. The book detailed how the liberal "Rockefeller Republican" wing of the Republican Party had manipulated the Republican Party's choice of nominees in prior national conventions to nominate people like Wendell Willkie and Dwight Eisenhower, and called on conservatives to rally against the liberal wing and offer a true conservative for the nomination. Hence, the title of the book. Millions of copies of this book were bought and distributed by supporters of Goldwater, making it one of the all-time best selling conservative political books in the United States. The book helped launch the career of Phyllis Schlafly as a movement conservative.
This book is also noteworthy for exposing the group of elite globalists who held secret annual meetings to try to exercise control over multiple countries, and this book coined the word the "DeBilderbergers" to describe them (later the Dutch name was shortened to the English "Bilderbergers").
This book was originally published by Pere Marquette Press, ISBN 0-686-11486-8, and then an updated and expanded version was published as a 50th anniversary edition in 2014 by Regnery, with a forward by Ron Paul, ISBN 978-1-62157-315-9.
Recent events
The election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 was the fulfillment of the vision in this prophetic work. The New York Times credited this book with the rise of Trump and Jeff Sessions, who was Trump's top nominee for his Cabinet:[1]
| “ | In high school, ... Mr. Sessions was fascinated by Phyllis Schlafly’s book “A Choice Not an Echo,” a catechism on the split between the Republican Party establishment and its right wing. The book enjoined true conservatives to topple the party’s kingmakers and compromisers, presaging the rise of the Tea Party and Mr. Trump — and now, Mr. Sessions himself. | ” |