Suburban Warriors : : The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition / / Lisa McGirr.

In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Updated edition with a New preface by the author
Language:English
Series:Politics and Society in Modern America ; 115
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • Preface to the New Edition
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1. The Setting
  • CHAPTER 2. "A Sleeping Giant Is Awakening": Right-Wing Mobilization, 1960-1963
  • CHAPTER 3. The Grassroots Goldwater Campaign
  • CHAPTER 4. The Conservative Worldview at the Grass Roots
  • CHAPTER 5. The Birth of Populist Conservatism
  • CHAPTER 6. New Social Issues and Resurgent Evangelicalism
  • EPILOGUE
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX