America's Right Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party

Name: America's Right Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
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ISBN: 9780745664293

ISBN-10: 0745664296

ISBN-13: 9780745664293

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert B. Horwitz

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Conservatism has been the most important political doctrine in the United States for nearly four decades. It has dominated the intellectual debate and largely set the policy agenda, even during years of Democratic electoral control. But 21st century conservatism has moved far beyond even the Reagan Revolution of small government, lower taxes and a respect for tradition. The alliance of libertarians, neoconservatives, and the Christian right has launched anxious and angry attacks on the purported homosexual agenda, the “hoax” of climate change, the rule by experts and elites, and the banishment of religion from the public realm. In the foreign policy arena it has tried to remake…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 5/17/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.30" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Anti-statist Statism: A Brief History of a Peculiarly American Conservatism



Religion and Politics: The Rise of the New Christian Right



Two Generations of Neoconservatism: From the Law of Unintended Consequences to the Cleansing Fire of Violence



Richard Hofstadter's "Paranoid Style" Revisited: The Tea Party, Past as Prologue



Dogmatism, Utopianism, and Politics


Notes


Index