# Conservatives without Conscience

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{{Short description|2006 book by John Dean}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Conservatives without Conscience
| image  = File:Conservatives without conscience.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first edition
| author = [John Dean](/source/John_Dean) 
| cover_artist = 
| publisher = [Viking Press](/source/Viking_Press)
| release_date = July 2006
| media_type = Print ([Hardcover](/source/Hardcover) and [Paperback](/source/Paperback))
| pages = 188
| isbn =  978-0-670-03774-2 
| dewey= 320.520973 22
| congress= JC573.2.U6 D43 2006
| oclc= 67384273
}}

'''''Conservatives without Conscience''''' is a book written by [John Dean](/source/John_Dean), who served as [White House Counsel](/source/White_House_Counsel) under [U.S. President](/source/President_of_the_United_States) [Richard Nixon](/source/Richard_Nixon) and then helped to break the [Watergate scandal](/source/Watergate_scandal) with his testimony before the [United States Senate](/source/United_States_Senate). The book analyzes the evolution of the [Republican Party](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)), and the different forms of [conservatism](/source/conservatism), largely in terms of [authoritarian personality](/source/authoritarian_personality). It was published in 2006 by [Viking Press](/source/Viking_Press).

The book makes extensive use of the research into [right-wing authoritarianism](/source/right-wing_authoritarianism) of [University of Manitoba](/source/University_of_Manitoba) professor [Bob Altemeyer](/source/Bob_Altemeyer). The title is a play on ''[The Conscience of a Conservative](/source/The_Conscience_of_a_Conservative)'', a seminal book attributed to the Republican nominee in the [1964 presidential campaign](/source/1964_United_States_presidential_election), U.S. Senator [Barry Goldwater](/source/Barry_Goldwater), but ghostwritten by [L. Brent Bozell Jr.](/source/L._Brent_Bozell_Jr.) Dean claims{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} that he and Goldwater had planned to write such a book in the 1980s in response to their disaffection with the [Religious Right](/source/Christian_right).

==External links==
*[http://www.penguin.com/book/conservatives-without-conscience-by-john-w-dean/9780143038863 Conservatives without Conscience] from [Viking Press](/source/Viking_Press)
*[http://www.peoplesworld.org/conservatives-without-conscience-an-insider-views-the-gop-s-ominous-politics/ People's Weekly World review]
*The [http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=92 Authoritarian Social Dominators] identified by John Dean
*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?193420-1/conservatives-conscience Presentation by Dean on ''Conservatives Without Conscience'', July 13, 2006], [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN)
*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?194148-1/conservatives-conscience Presentation by Dean on ''Conservatives Without Conscience'', September 5, 2006], [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN)

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Category:2006 non-fiction books
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Category:Books critical of conservatism in the United States
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Category:Viking Press books

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