Conservative Ascendancy How the GOP Right Made Political History

Name: Conservative Ascendancy How the GOP Right Made Political History
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ISBN: 9780674026209

ISBN-10: 0674026209

ISBN-13: 9780674026209

Edition: 2007

Authors: Donald T. Critchlow

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Listen to a short interview with Donald Critchlow Host: Chris Gondek ] Producer: Heron & Crane Despite significant losses in the 2006 midterm elections, the Republican Right remains a powerful and defining force in American politics. Donald Critchlow, a leading historian of American conservatism, shows that time and again the GOP Right appeared defeated, only to rebound with explosive force. The ascendancy of the GOP Right was not preordained, nor was its political triumph inevitable. Rather, the history of the postwar Right was one of fierce political warfare as moderate Republicans battled right-wing Republicans for control of their party, and conservatives battled liberals for control…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction



European Intellectuals and Conservative Firebrands



Triumph and Travail in 1964



Trust and Betrayal in the Nixon Years



The Power of Ideas and Institutions



The Accident of History



Forward to the Promised Land



The Reagan Decade



Democrats Rebound



Americans Divided


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index