SOURCE: “Further Revelations,” in New Statesman & Society, November 6, 1992, p. 50.

In the following review, Kennedy offers a positive assessment of Live from Golgotha.

When George Bush finally achieved his patrician ambition and negative-campaigned his way into the Oval Office in 1988, many old-school members of the Republican Party breathed a sigh of relief. For they wrongfully believed that—after eight years of Ronnie’s down-home jingoism—the arrival of the ultimate New England blue-blood meant that the party would once more return to its just-right-of-centre laissez-faire roots—or what can best be described as Social Darwinism in a Brooks Brothers suit.

The party’s venerable Eastern guard was also certain that, once in power, Bush would quickly distance himself from those tacky electronic Bible thumpers whom Reagan so assiduously courted. After all, one-time captains of the Yale baseball team simply do not bend the knee in the direction of declass...