Conservatives, this is your book – this is your story!

Fighting the Good Fight is the story of how two men of vision, J. Daniel Mahoney and Kieran O’Doherty had the guts and fortitude to counter the liberal Rockefeller-Javits domination of New York’s politics by founding the Conservative Party.

Fighting the Good Fight is the history of thousands of principled people like you, who on a shoestring budget, often under great political and economic pressure to abandon their cause, changed the political landscape of New York State.

Fighting the Good Fight tells how, for forty years, Conservatives have been the guardian of working-class New Yorkers; men and women who subscribe to the believe that to be good citizens it is essential to love family, neighborhood, country and God, and just as important, to respect the ethic of hard work. It is the story of how the Conservative Party has for four decades, lived up to its charter to serve political ideals first.

Fight the Good Fight will contribute to establishing the Conservative Party’s rightful place in the history of American conservatism.

In vivid and often amusing detail, George Marlin gives us an insider’s view of: The derailing of Rockefeller’s presidential freight train. William F. Buckley Jr.’s race for mayor of New York City in 1965. The Conservative Party’s battles with John Lindsay in the late Sixties. The senatorial victory of Conservative James Buckley in 1970. The Conservative response to New York City’s and State’s fiscal crisis. The Conservative Party’s margin of victory that elected Governor George Pataki.

Order your book here with a donation to CPNYS of only $28.00 400 pages, 7" x 9", clothbound, $28.00 ISBN. 1-58731-251-4 introduction, notes, bibliography, appendices, index Twenty-four photographs

Fighting the Good Fight confirms Ronald Reagan’s observation that "The Conservative Party has established itself as a preeminent force in New York politics and an important part of our political history."

Here’s what the critics are saying about Fighting the Good Fight:

"George Marlin has written an important book on an important anniversary of a vital political institution. He is taking notes for a book on the Conservative Party’s 50^th."                       --William F. Buckley Jr.

"George Marlin has filled a gaping hole on the bookshelf of American political history with his history of New York’s Conservative Party from its founding in 1962 to 2002. The Conservative Party, once the target of ridicule, has done much to change the Republican party in New York and in the nation. George Marlin knows New York in and out – not just Manhattan, but the outer boroughs and upstate as well – and Fighting the Good Fight is not only good history, it’s a great read."

Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report, author of The New Americans; How the Melting Pot Can Work Again, and co-author, The Almanac of American Politics.

"George J. Marlin is not only a superb recorder of the history of The New York Conservative Party, but someone who helped shape that history. From the beginning, the Conservative Party has had a unique blend of high principle, street corner common sense, and the love of a good, old-fashioned political scrap against great odds, and Mr. Marlin captures this spirit throughout. Buy two copies of Fighting the Good Fight and send one to a liberal of your choice – we conservatives believe in late conversions and this book can do the job!"

William E. Gavin, a speechwriter for President Nixon, is the author of The Street Corner Conservative.

When you finish Fighting the Good Fight, you won’t know everything Marlin knows about New York politics – that would be impossible – but you will know more than you did.

From the introduction by Richard Brookhiser, National Review Senior Editor and the author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington and Alexander Hamilton: American.

About the author:

George J. Marlin is Chairman and C.O.O. of The Philadelphia Trust Company. He served two terms as Executive Director and C.E.O. of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In that capacity he managed 35 facilities including the World Trade Center; LaGuardia, J.F.K. and Newark Airports, PATH Subway and the four bridges and two tunnels that connect New York and New Jersey. In 1993, Mr. Marlin was the Conservative Party nominee for mayor of the City of New York and in 1994 he served on Governor-elect Pataki’s transition team. Mr. Marlin is the author of The Politician’s Guide to Assisted Suicide Cloning and Other Current Controversies and co-authored with Joe Mysak, The Guidebook to Municipal Bonds. He is the editor of The Quotable Chesterton, More Quotable Chesterton, Quotable Fulton Sheen, Quotable Paul Johnson and Quotable Ronald Knox. Mr. Marlin also serves as General Editor of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. His articles have appeared in numerous periodicals including National Review, Newsday and the New York Daily News. A lifelong resident of New York, Mr. Marlin resides with his wife, Barbara, in Nassau County.

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