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

• Autore: McGirr Lisa <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (411 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.52; 320.520973
• Soggetto topico: Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century; Right and left (Political science) - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1945-1989
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Suburban warriors
• ISBN: 1-4008-4363-4; 1-299-75852-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248009503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America