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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495872603321

Autore

Himmelstein Jerome I.

Titolo

To the right : the transformation of American conservatism / / Jerome I. Himmelstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1990]

©1990

ISBN

0-520-34093-0

0-520-91317-5

0-585-32271-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 290 p. )

Disciplina

320.5/2/0973

Soggetti

Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century

Conservatism - History - 20th century - United States

United States Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 261-282.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sociology, Social Commentary, and the Rise of the Right -- 1. Historical Prologue: Revolution and Delayed Reaction -- 2. Reconstructing an Ideology -- 3. The Growth of a Movement: Old Right and New -- 4. The Rise of the New Religious Right -- 5. The Mobilization of Corporate Conservatism -- 6. The New Republican Edge: Gains without Realignment -- Epilogue: American Conservatism in the Bush Years -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this timely book, Jerome Himmelstein offers a new interpretation of the growth of conservatism in American politics. Tracing the New Right of the 1970s and 1980s back to the Old Right of the 1950s, Himmelstein provides an interpretive map of the political landscape over the past decades, showing how conservatives ascended to power by reconstructing their ideology and building an independent movement.