Environmental chemistry Book

Well written book that describes the rise of key thought-leaders on the right and helps more moderate readers to understand those leaders' outlook. Focuses on real intellectuals rather than Fox News provocateurs.

What keeps this from being a 5- or even 4-star book is that the author fails to link these thought-leaders to the business elites and social movements who back them. Ideas don't exist in a vacuum. How did Grover Norquist develop such influence, and who pays his bills? Why did the anti-regulator David McIntosh gain more influence than other young Congressmen? How did Ralph Reed, ostensibly a religious leader and apparently a committed Christian, end up getting corrupted by money?

Without answers to these questions I don't think we can really understand the Conservative ascendancy.