Time for Choosing The Rise of Modern American Conservatism

Name: Time for Choosing The Rise of Modern American Conservatism
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ISBN: 9780195157260

ISBN-10: 0195157265

ISBN-13: 9780195157260

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jonathan Schoenwald, Jonathan M. Schoenwald

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How did American conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s? What political strategies originating during the decade enabled the modern conservative movement to flourish? And how did mainstream and extremist conservatives, frequently at odds over tactics and ideology, each play a role in reshaping the Republican Party? In the 1960s conservatives did nothing less than engineer their own revolution. A Time for Choosing tells the remarkable story behind this transformation. In the first decade after World War II, two broad branches of organized conservatism emerged:…

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List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



The Birth of Postwar Conservatism



The Cold War Hits Home



A New Kind of Conservatism: The John Birch Society



The Case of General Edwin A. Walker



Creating Conflagration: Barry Goldwater and the Republican Party



Buckley for Mayor



A New Kind of Conservative: Ronald Reagan



Passing the Torch: Organizations and Issues, 1968-1972


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index