LEADER 04209nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910814207803321 005 20240418091901.0 010 $a1-281-77641-6 010 $a9786611776411 010 $a0-8135-4510-2 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813545103 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541737 035 $a(EBL)361657 035 $a(OCoLC)476190909 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233639 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202510 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233639 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235294 035 $a(PQKB)10604223 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC361657 035 $a(OCoLC)271432757 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23275 035 $a(DE-B1597)530361 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813545103 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL361657 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10251810 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL177641 035 $a(OCoLC)1154897211 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541737 100 $a20071031d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRebels all! $ea short history of the conservative mind in postwar America /$fKevin Mattson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (188 p.) 225 0 $aIdeas in Action 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4343-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: The Party of Ideas? --$t1. The First Generation: Apocalyptic Rebels with a Cause --$t2. The Big Chill That Set Fires --$t3. Postmodern Conservatism, the Politics of Outrage, and the Mindset of War --$tConclusion: When Extremism Becomes a Virtue --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aDo you ever wonder why conservative pundits drop the word ?faggot? or talk about killing and then Christianizing Muslims abroad? Do you wonder why the right?s spokespeople seem so confrontational, rude, and over-the-top recently? Does it seem strange that conservative books have such apocalyptic titles? Do you marvel at why conservative writers trumpeted the ?rebel? qualities of George W. Bush just a few years back? There is no doubt that the style of the political right today is tough, brash, and by many accounts, not very conservative sounding. After all, isn?t conservatism supposed to be about maintaining standards, upholding civility, and frowning upon rebellion? Historian Kevin Mattson explains the apparent contradictions of the party in this fresh examination of the postwar conservative mind. Examining a big cast of characters that includes William F. Buckley, Whittaker Chambers, Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, Kevin Phillips, David Brooks, and others, Mattson shows how right-wing intellectuals have always, but in different ways, played to the populist and rowdy tendencies in America?s political culture. He boldly compares the conservative intellectual movement to the radical utopians among the New Left of the 1960's and he explains how conservatism has ingested central features of American culture, including a distrust of sophistication and intellectualism and a love of popular culture, sensation, shock, and celebrity. Both a work of history and political criticism, Rebels All! shows how the conservative mind made itself appealing, but also points to its endemic problems. Mattson?s conclusion outlines how a recast liberalism should respond to the conservative ascendancy that has marked our politics for the last thirty years. 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989- 615 0$aConservatism$xHistory 615 0$aConservatism$xHistory 676 $a320.520973 700 $aMattson$b Kevin$f1966-$0869156 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814207803321 996 $aRebels all$93960941 997 $aUNINA