Conservatives without Conscience

Conservatives without Conscience is a book written by John Dean, who served as White House Counsel under U.S. President Richard Nixon and then helped to break the Watergate scandal with his testimony before the United States Senate. The book analyzes the evolution of the Republican Party, and the different forms of conservatism, largely in terms of authoritarian personality. It was published in 2006 by Viking Press.

Conservatives without Conscience

Cover of the first edition
Author	John Dean
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	July 2006
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	188
ISBN	978-0-670-03774-2
OCLC	67384273
Dewey Decimal	320.520973 22
LC Class	JC573.2.U6 D43 2006

The book makes extensive use of the research into right-wing authoritarianism of University of Manitoba professor Bob Altemeyer. The title is a play on The Conscience of a Conservative, a seminal book attributed to the Republican nominee in the 1964 presidential campaign, U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, but ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr. Dean claims^{[citation needed]} that he and Goldwater had planned to write such a book in the 1980s in response to their disaffection with the Religious Right.

External links

• Conservatives without Conscience from Viking Press
• People's Weekly World review
• The Authoritarian Social Dominators identified by John Dean
• Presentation by Dean on Conservatives Without Conscience, July 13, 2006, C-SPAN
• Presentation by Dean on Conservatives Without Conscience, September 5, 2006, C-SPAN