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Suburban Warriors : The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition /

In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGirr, Lisa, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Edition:New edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the New Edition; Acknowledgments; INDRODUCTION; CHPATER 1: The Setting; CHPATER 2: "A Sleeping Giant Is Awakening": Right-Wing Mobilization, 1960-1963 ; CHPATER 3: The Grassroots Goldwater Campaign; CHPATER 4: The Conservative Worldview at the Grass Roots; CHPATER 5: The Birth of Populist Conservatism ; CHPATER 6: New Social Issues and Resurgent Evangelicalism; EPILOUGE; Notes; Bibliography; Index.