Suburban Warriors - The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition

Zusatztext "McGirr is enlightening, offering much solid research on the devoted berserkers who seized the Republican Party in 1964 to foist Goldwater on an unwelcoming nation. . . . McGirr has uncovered something important about the activists of the right."" ---Todd Gitlin, Boston Review Informationen zum Autor Lisa McGirr is professor of history at Harvard University. Klappentext "A landmark study that will enlighten anyone who cares about the evolution of American politics since World War II. With Lisa McGirr's thorough, sophisticated, smoothly crafted exploration of Orange County conservatism, the history of the modern Right has finally come of age." --Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, coauthor of America Divided and The Populist Persuasion "In her impressively researched, gracefully written book, Lisa McGirr convincingly demonstrates that historians, who have been preoccupied with the Left in the 1960s, need to develop a deeper comprehension of how conservatives in places such as Orange County reconfigured American political culture. Readers will find her attempt to understand them, rather than dismiss or condemn them, both rewarding and challenging." --William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Something happened to the Republican Party in the 1960s, changing it forever. How did a crypto-liberal, Northeast-dominated, establishment-oriented party become a populist, counter-liberal crusade? Here's the story: exhaustively researched and presented with telling analysis and narrative verve." --Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California Zusammenfassung In the early 1960s, 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 "...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lisa Mcgirr, Lisa Mcgirr, McGirr Lisa
• Con la collaborazione di: Lisa Mcgirr (Prefazione), McGirr Lisa (Prefazione)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.06.2015
• EAN: 9780691165738
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16573-8
• Pagine: 432
• Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America; Politics and Society in Twenti; Politics and Society in Modern America; Politics and Society in Modern
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies