The Vanishing Tradition - Perspectives on American Conservatism

"A critical examination of the American conservative movement, with special emphasis on its development as a media phenomenon. As a whole, the book's argument is that the movement is neither conservative nor really a movement at all but a conglomeration of interests whose sponsors pay celebrities for promoting their causes"--

Sommario

Introduction: The Right in Changing Perspective

1. The Big Conservatism and the American Exceptionalism

2. The Significance of the M. E. Bradford Affair

3. The Tory Right and the American Conservative Movement: Parallel Universes?

4. Who Funds Conservatism, Inc.?

5. Imagination and Its Failures: The Struggle of a Conservative American Foreign Policy

6. The Contradictions of Catholic Neoconservatism

7. Trump, Neoconservatives, and the Misrepresentation of the American Founding

8. Why the Alt Right Is Not Going Anywhere (Regardless of What We Call It)

9. The Unwanted Southern Conservative

10. Republican Voters and Conservative Ideology

11. Afterword: The Never-Ending Purges

Info autore

edited by Paul Gottfried

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul (EDT) Gottfried
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Gottfried (Editore)
• Editore: Northern Illinois University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781501749858
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-4985-8
• Pagine: 240
• 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; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, HISTORY / United States / General, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism