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Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. "Under God, the People Rule"
Chapter 2. "Humanity Gone Mad"
Chapter 3. "100% Against Communists"
Chapter 4. "An Entire World in Khaki Brown and Olive Green"
Chapter 5. Secrets and Lies
Chapter 6. George McGovern's "Lost World"
Chapter 7. Wounded Knee, 1973, and the War at Home
Chapter 8. "The Companies You Keep"
Appendix. Methodology:Total Population of Military Personnel and Dependents Stationed in the Dakotas, 1955-1995
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Catherine McNicol Stock is the Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Professor of History at Connecticut College and author of Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain.
Zusammenfassung
In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside.
