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A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party  "A timely and expert guide to one of today's most hot-button political issues." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)  "A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue." - Kirkus Reviews  "[Ziegler's] argument in [is] that, over the course of decades, the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork for an insurgent candidate like Trump." - Jennifer Szalai, New York Times   The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business - two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing.