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Record Nr.

UNISA996248009503316

Autore

McGirr Lisa <1962->

Titolo

Suburban warriors : the origins of the new American Right / / Lisa McGirr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-4008-4363-4

1-299-75852-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Collana

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Disciplina

320.52

320.520973

Soggetti

Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century

Right and left (Political science) - History - 20th century

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-377) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: The Setting; CHAPTER 2: "A Sleeping Giant Is Awakening": Right-Wing Mobilization, 1960-1963; CHAPTER 3: The Grassroots Goldwater Campaign; CHAPTER 4: The Conservative Worldview at the Grass Roots; CHAPTER 5: The Birth of Populist Conservatism; CHAPTER 6: New Social Issues and Resurgent Evangelicalism; EPILOGUE; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the early 1960's, 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 warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that ""barefooted Africans"" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would...