Diamond, Sara Roads to dominion : : right-wing movements and political power in the United States / [electronic resource] / Sara Diamond.. — New York : : Guilford Press,, c1995.. — ix, 445 p. ; 24 cm. — (Critical perspectives). - Critical perspectives (New York, N.Y.) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-425) and index.

Delayed reaction: The right after World War II -- From McCarthy to Goldwater: The anticommunist movement of the 1950s and 1960s -- Organized resistance to preserve segregation -- Historical antecedents of the Christian right -- Breaking the impasse: New political and organizational opportunities for the conservative movement -- The Americanist movement and the persistence of racist nationalism -- Casting the first stones: The early mobilization of the Christian right -- The neoconservatives -- Right-wing power in the 1980s: The state-movement convergence -- Undaunted allies: The Christian right in the 1980s -- The racist right in the 1980s and 1990s: Diminished influence, resurgent violence -- After Reagan, rumbling on the right.



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Conservatism--United States.
Rechts (politiek)


United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-

JC573.2.U6 / D53 1995

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