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Lisa McGirr - Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition - 9780691165738 - V9780691165738
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Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition

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Description for Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition Paperback. Series: Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
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 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 County, 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
Politics and Society in Modern America
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691165738
SKU
V9780691165738
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About Lisa McGirr
Lisa McGirr is professor of history at Harvard University.

Reviews for Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition
Winner of the 2001 Book Award, New England Historical Association Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Prize in Western American History "Suburban Warriors affords a rare picture of the grass-roots process actually working at a specific site... McGirr's setting is California's Orange County, which became America's most celebrated conservative stronghold in the 1960s. McGirr's book provides a valuable scholarly analysis ... Read more

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