No Right Turn : : Conservative Politics in a Liberal America / / David T. Courtwright.

• VerfasserIn: Courtwright, David T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Few question the “right turn” America took after 1966, when liberal political power began to wane. But if they did, No Right Turn suggests, they might discover that all was not really “right” with the conservative golden age. A provocative overview of a half century of American politics, the book ta...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1. How to Think about the Culture War
• 2. Like It Was When I Was a Boy
• 3. Overcome
• 4. Twenty Percent of What the Nuts Want
• 5. Cheerleaders for the Rev
• 6. Babe in Christ
• 7. Act Right
• 8. Robert Bork’s America
• 9. Like Battling the Devil
• 10. Referendum on the 1960s
• 11. The Illusion of Conservatism
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Illustration Credits
• Index