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Rightward Bound Making America Conservative in The 1970s

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ISBN-10: 0674027582

ISBN-13: 9780674027589

Edition: 2008

Authors: Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer

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Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties and Reaganrsquo;s Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed era when the forces of a conservative counter-revolution cohered. These years marked a significant moral and cultural turning point in which the conservative movement became the motive force driving politics for the ensuing three decades. Interpreting the movement as more than a backlash against the rampant liberalization of American culture, racial conflict, the Vietnam War, and Watergate, these provocative and innovative essays look below the surface, discovering the tectonic shifts that paved the way for Reaganrsquo;s America. They reveal strains at the…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Bruce Schulman is Professor of History at Boston University.

Julian E. Zelizer is professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. His most recent books include "Jimmy Carter", "Arsenal of Democracy", and "The Presidency of George W. Bush" (Princeton). He writes a weekly column for CNN.com and Politico and has written for the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", and many other publications.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mobilizing the Movement
Inventing Family Values
The Evangelical Resurgence in 1970s American Protestantism
Make Payroll, Not War: Business Culture as Youth Culture
Gender and America's Right Turn
Civil Rights and the Religious Right
The Decade of the Neighborhood
Cultural Politics and the Singer/Songwriters of the 1970s
Financing the Counterrevolution
The Battle Over Policies and Politics
The White Ethnic Strategy
The Conservative Struggle and the Energy Crisis
Turnabout Years: Public Sector Unionism and the Fiscal Crisis
Detente and Its Discontents
Carter's Nicaragua and Other Democratic Quagmires
Conservatives, Carter, and the Politics of National Security
Epilogue
Notes
List of Contributors
Index