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The conservative ascendancy : how the GOP right made political history / Donald T. Critchlow.
- Title
- The conservative ascendancy : how the GOP right made political history / Donald T. Critchlow.
- Author
- Critchlow, Donald T., 1948-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- 359 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In this history of the Right in modern America, Donald Critchlow finds a deep dilemma inherent in how conservative Republicans expressed their anti-statist ideology in an age of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities. As the Right moved forward with its political program, partisanship intensified and ideological division widened - both between the parties and across the electorate. This intensified partisanship reflects the vibrancy of a mature democracy, Critchlow argues, and a new level of political engagement despite its disquieting effect on American political debate."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-333) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- European intellectuals and conservative firebrands -- Triumph and travail in 1964 -- Trust and betrayal in the Nixon years -- The power of ideas and institutions -- The accident of history -- Forward to the promised land -- The Reagan decade -- Democrats rebound -- Americans divided.
- ISBN
- 9780674026209 (alk. paper)
- 0674026209 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007023730
- OCLC
- 148723846
- SCSB-10214734
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library