Andrew Breitbart Books

He only wrote two books but Andrew Breitbart changed American politics and the Republican party forever. Breitbart is one of the founding father’s of the modern almost-revolutionary Conservative movement, refusing to play by the rules of the game that are structured in a politically-correct language designed to control free thought.

He is known for the self-titled Breitbart Doctrine that “politics is downstream from culture.” By that, he posited that one can’t change the culture through political actions, but rather that only by changing the culture can one make true changes to policies. This theory is espoused by many in the modern Conservative movement like Ben Shapiro who argue that the culture war is the real battle and that there’s no sense in arguing over taxation policies when the ruling elites and media have fundamentally shifted American democracy into something that no longer espouses the principles of the Constitution.

Surprisingly, Andrew Breitbart played a role in founding HuffPost. He also helped in setting up right-wing news aggregator the Drudge Report. Originally Breitbart.com, founded in 2005, was a news aggregator site. With the death of Andrew in 2012 the site was sent in a new direction, covering news directly with teams of skilled writers. Keeping with the Breitbart Principle, the site doesn’t just cover news, but pop-culture, sports and more. It covers all aspects of modern life but wth a Conservative view, the idea being that as the he left pours its ideas into everything from broadway to basketball, Breitbart meets them there to battle on the cultural level.

Much like how Rush Limbaugh gave Conservatism a foodhold in talk radio, Breitbart gave Conservatives a voice in the digital space.The impact of this is vastly more important when you consider the decline in radio as a medium and the ascendance of digital media. And when you consider that at the same time the site was growing dramatically, the opposition media was deteriorating.

Without Breitbart.com it’s highly unlikely Donald Trump would ever have become President.

Everything that is Breitbart.com today and the mission it serves to fight the corporate legacy media is detailed in Andrew Breitbart’s final book, “Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World,” published the year before he died.

His first book is seemingly unrelated, but in fact couldn’t be more so. In “Hollywood Interrupted” Breitbart delves into the absurd and even grotesque Hollywood lifestyle and why celebrities believe it is their role to push the “progressive” message of the Democratic party into every corner of the country.

As talented and cultured as those suit-and-tie Republicans are, few know or understand the Left because they don’t know or understand pop culture. Breitbart did and that’s why he’s made such a huge impact on the Conservative movement.

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World (2011)

Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity (2004)