LEADER 04161nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910789622203321 005 20230725030913.0 010 $a0-674-05844-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674058446 035 $a(CKB)2670000000078914 035 $a(OCoLC)712039964 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10459114 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471715 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282454 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471715 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10428039 035 $a(PQKB)11277366 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300932 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300932 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10459114 035 $a(DE-B1597)585447 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674058446 035 $a(OCoLC)1301548201 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000078914 100 $a20100225d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNo right turn$b[electronic resource] $econservative politics in a liberal America /$fDavid T. Courtwright 210 $aCambridge, MA . $cHarvard University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-04677-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $t1. How to Think about the Culture War -- $t2. Like It Was When I Was a Boy -- $t3. Overcome -- $t4. Twenty Percent of What the Nuts Want -- $t5. Cheerleaders for the Rev -- $t6. Babe in Christ -- $t7. Act Right -- $t8. Robert Bork?s America -- $t9. Like Battling the Devil -- $t10. Referendum on the 1960s -- $t11. The Illusion of Conservatism -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIllustration Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aFew question the ?right turn? America took after 1966, when liberal political power began to wane. But if they did, No Right Turn suggests, they might discover that all was not really ?right? with the conservative golden age. A provocative overview of a half century of American politics, the book takes a hard look at the counterrevolutionary dreams of liberalism?s enemies?to overturn people?s reliance on expanding government, reverse the moral and sexual revolutions, and win the Culture War?and finds them largely unfulfilled. David T. Courtwright deftly profiles celebrated and controversial figures, from Clare Boothe Luce, Barry Goldwater, and the Kennedy brothers to Jerry Falwell, David Stockman, and Lee Atwater. He shows us Richard Nixon?s keen talent for turning popular anxieties about morality and federal meddling to Republican advantage?and his inability to translate this advantage into reactionary policies. Corporate interests, boomer lifestyles, and the media weighed heavily against Nixon and his successors, who placated their base with high-profile attacks on crime, drugs, and welfare dependency. Meanwhile, religious conservatives floundered on abortion and school prayer, obscenity, gay rights, and legalized vices like gambling, and fiscal conservatives watched in dismay as the bills mounted. We see how President Reagan?s mélange of big government, strong defense, lower taxes, higher deficits, mass imprisonment, and patriotic symbolism proved an illusory form of conservatism. Ultimately, conservatives themselves rebelled against George W. Bush?s profligate brand of Reaganism. Courtwright?s account is both surprising and compelling, a bracing argument against some of our most cherished clichés about recent American history. 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States 606 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989- 607 $aUnited States$xReligion$y1945- 615 0$aConservatism 615 0$aChristianity and politics 676 $a320.520973 700 $aCourtwright$b David T.$f1952-$01473702 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789622203321 996 $aNo right turn$93808858 997 $aUNINA