After a decade of power, did American conservatism come apart at the seams? With the comic flair and political savvy that have become his trademarks, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., takes a hard look at the long road he and his fellow conservatives traveled and arrives at a surprising analysis that will unsettle friends and foes alike. As he did in his earlier autopsy, The Liberal Crack-up, he has “journeyed into the fever swamps of American politics and come back with the bugs,” but this time the malaise is on the Right, not the Left.