Republican and Conservative political analysis and commentary

UPS just delivered me a review copy of The Strategy of Campaigning, a book from University of Michigan Press that explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of recent years. here's how the publisher describes the book:

The authors demonstrate how and why Reagan and Yeltsin succeeded in their political aspirations despite - or perhaps because of - their apparent "policy extremism": that is, their advocacy of policy positions far from the mainstream. The book analyzes the viability of policy extremism as a political strategy that enables candidates to forge new coalitions and outflank conventional political allegiances.

The book examines Reagan's 1968, 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns and Yeltsin's 1991 campaign for the presidency of Russia. The book has four authors, including Kiron Skinner, associate professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University; Serhiy Kudelia, Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University; Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, professor of politics at New York University; and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, currently on leave of absenze from Stanford University where she is a professor of political science and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

I look forward to reading it. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.