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the origins of the new American Right

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An edition of Suburban Warriors (2001)

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the origins of the new American Right

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"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' accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country.

Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange Country, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century.".

"Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity.

Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism.".

"While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange Country's rise from "nut country" to political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism.

Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens - and often upsets - our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America."--BOOK JACKET.

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395

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Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
January 21, 2002, Princeton University Press
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Suburban warriors: the origins of the new American Right
2001, Princeton University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-377) and index.

Published in
Princeton, N.J
Series
Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.52/0973
Library of Congress
E839.5 .M32 2001, E839.5.M32 2001, E 839.5 M32 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 395 p. :
Number of pages
395

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6792052M
Internet Archive
suburbanwarriors00mcgi
ISBN 10
0691059039
LCCN
00056508
OCLC/WorldCat
44578931
Library Thing
268100
Goodreads
1809341

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