| Conservatives without Conscience | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | John Dean |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | July 2006 |
| Media type | Hardcover/Paperback |
| Pages | 188 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0670037745 and ISBN 978-0670037742 |
| OCLC Number | 67384273 |
| Dewey Decimal | 320.520973 22 |
| LC Classification | JC573.2.U6 D43 2006 |
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.
The book makes extensive use of the research into right-wing authoritarianism of University of Manitoba Professor Robert Altemeyer. The title is a play on The Conscience of a Conservative, a seminal book attributed to Barry Goldwater and ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr.. Dean claims that he and Goldwater had planned to write such a book in the 1980s in response to their disaffection with the religious right.