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Bucking Conservatism

Author : Leon Crane Bear
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771992573
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Bucking Conservatism written by Leon Crane Bear and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta’s conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta’s history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta’s noncomformists---those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics---and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists.

All the Right Lies

Author : Buck Beasom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781618633088
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book All the Right Lies written by Buck Beasom and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beasom calls out the American Right and the GOP for their addiction to untruth. He exposes this fabric of studied dishonesty and explains how a party, once the champion of equal rights, equality, and fair play, has devolved into the plaything of plutocrats.

The Right Side of the Sixties

Author : Laura Jane Gifford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137014792
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Right Side of the Sixties written by Laura Jane Gifford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s were a transformative era for American politics, but much is still unknown about the growth of conservatism during the period when it was radically reshaped and became the national political force that it is today. In their efforts to chronicle the national politicians and organizations that led the movement, previous histories have often neglected local perspectives, the role of religion, transnational exchange, and other aspects that help to explain conservatism's enduring influence in American politics. Taken together, the contributions gathered here offer a cutting-edge synthesis that incorporates these overlooked developments and provides new insights into the way that the 1960s shaped the trajectory of postwar conservatism.

Defining Conservatism

Author : Jonathan Krohn
Publisher : Vanguard
ISBN 13 : 1593156081
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Defining Conservatism written by Jonathan Krohn and published by Vanguard. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dedicated young Conservative, Jonathan Krohn presents Conservative philosophy's basic tenets in this remarkably earnest and impeccably reasoned primer. This book, clear and informative, is a history lesson, a manifesto, and a roadmap for the future. Anyone interested in the basic differences between Conservative and Liberal thought will find Krohn's writing at once compelling, informative, intelligent, and--for those who do not agree with him--in some respects controversial.

The Death of Conservatism

Author : Sam Tanenhaus
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812981030
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Conservatism written by Sam Tanenhaus and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Tanenhaus’s essay “Conservatism Is Dead” prompted intense discussion and debate when it was published in The New Republic in the first days of Barack Obama’s presidency. Now Tanenhaus, a leading authority on modern politics, has expanded his argument into a sweeping history of the American conservative movement. For seventy-five years, he argues, the Right has been split between two factions: consensus-driven “realists” who believe in the virtue of government and its power to adjust to changing conditions, and movement “revanchists” who distrust government and society–and often find themselves at war with America itself. Eventually, Tanenhaus writes, the revanchists prevailed, and the result is the decadent “movement conservatism” of today, a defunct ideology that is “profoundly and defiantly unconservative–in its arguments and ideas, its tactics and strategies, above all in its vision.” But there is hope for conservatism. It resides in the examples of pragmatic leaders like Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan and thinkers like Whittaker Chambers and William F. Buckley, Jr. Each came to understand that the true role of conservatism is not to advance a narrow ideological agenda but to engage in a serious dialogue with liberalism and join with it in upholding “the politics of stability.” Conservatives today need to rediscover the roots of this honorable tradition. It is their only route back to the center of American politics. At once succinct and detailed, penetrating and nuanced, The Death of Conservatism is a must-read for Americans of any political persuasion.

Up from Conservatism

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476761159
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Up from Conservatism written by Michael Lind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a decade, Michael Lind worked closely as a writer and editor with the intellectual leaders of American conservatism. Slowly, he came to believe that the many prominent intellectuals he worked with were not the leaders of the conservative movement but the followers and apologists for an increasingly divisive and reactionary political strategy orchestrated by the Republican party. Lind's disillusionment led to a very public break with his former colleagues on the right, as he attacked the Reverend Pat Robertson for using anti-Semitic sources in his writings. In Up From Conservatism, this former rising star of the right reveals what he believes to be the disturbing truth about the hidden economic agenda of the conservative elite. The Republican capture of the U.S. Congress in 1994 did not represent the conversion of the American public to conservative ideology. Rather, it marked the success of the thirty-year-old "southern strategy" begun by Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon. From the Civil War to the civil rights revolution, the southern elite combined a low-wage, low-tax strategy for economic development with a politics of demagogy based on race-baiting and Bible-thumping. Now, Lind maintains, the economic elite that controls the Republican party is following a similar strategy on a national scale, using their power to shift the tax burden from the rich to the middle class while redistributing wealth upward. To divert attention from their favoritism toward the rich, conservatives play up the "culture war," channeling popular anger about falling real wages and living standards away from Wall Street and focusing it instead on the black poor and nonwhite immigrants. The United States, Lind concludes, could use a genuine "one-nation" conservatism that seeks to promote the interests of the middle class and the poor as well as the rich. But today's elitist conservatism poses a clear and present danger to the American middle class and the American republic.

A Time for Choosing

Author : Jonathan M. Schoenwald
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195134737
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book A Time for Choosing written by Jonathan M. Schoenwald and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did American conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s? What political strategies originating during the decade enabled the modern conservative movement to flourish? And how did mainstream and extremist conservatives, frequently at odds over tactics and ideology, each play a role in reshaping the Republican Party? In the 1960s conservatives did nothing less than engineer their own revolution. A Time for Choosing tells the remarkable story behind this transformation. Where previous accounts of conservatism's rise tend to speed from 1964 through the start of the Reagan era in 1980, A Time for Choosing explores in dramatic detail how conservatives took immediate action following the Goldwater debacle. William F. Buckley, Jr.'s 1965 bid for Mayor of New York City and Reagan's 1966 California governor's campaign helped turn the tide for electoral conservatism. By decade's end, independent "splinter groups" vied for the right to bear the conservative standard into the next decade, demonstrating the movement's strength and vitality. Although conservative ideology was not created during the 1960s, its political components were. Here, then, is the story of the rise of the modern conservative movement. Provocative and beautifully written, A Time for Choosing is a book for anyone interested in politics and history in the postwar era.

Understanding Contemporary American Conservatism

Author : Joel D. Aberbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317193962
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Contemporary American Conservatism written by Joel D. Aberbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American conservatism – a mélange of ideas, people, and organizations – is difficult to define; even conservatives themselves are unable to agree about its essential meaning. Yet the conservative movement is well financed, exerts strong influence in the Republican Party, inspires followers throughout the land, and has spawned a network of think tanks and media outlets that are the envy of its competitors. It is a powerful political force with which to be reckoned. This book examines how that has come about and what contemporary conservatism signifies for US politics and policy. It looks at the recent history of conservatism in America as well as its antecedents in the UK, traces changes over time using American National Election Study data from 1972 to the present in what it means when people say they are conservatives, and assesses the prospects for American conservatism, both in the near term electoral context and over the longer term as well.

The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism

Author : David Farber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400834295
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism written by David Farber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of modern conservatism through the lives of six leading figures The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement. David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its breathtaking resurgence under Ronald Reagan, to its spectacular defeat with the election of Barack Obama. Farber paints vivid portraits of Robert Taft, William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. He shows how these outspoken, charismatic, and frequently controversial conservative leaders were united by a shared insistence on the primacy of social order, national security, and economic liberty. Farber demonstrates how they built a versatile movement capable of gaining and holding power, from Taft's opposition to the New Deal to Buckley's founding of the National Review as the intellectual standard-bearer of modern conservatism; from Goldwater's crusade against leftist politics and his failed 1964 bid for the presidency to Schlafly's rejection of feminism in favor of traditional gender roles and family values; and from Reagan's city upon a hill to conservatism's downfall with Bush's ambitious presidency. The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism provides rare insight into how conservatives captured the American political imagination by claiming moral superiority, downplaying economic inequality, relishing bellicosity, and embracing nationalism. This concise and accessible history reveals how these conservative leaders discovered a winning formula that enabled them to forge a powerful and formidable political majority. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Compelled to Act

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887558739
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Compelled to Act written by Sarah Carter and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelled to Act" showcases fresh historical perspectives on the diversity of women’s contributions to social and political change in prairie Canada in the twentieth century, including but looking beyond the era of suffrage activism. In our current time of revitalized activism against racism, colonialism, violence, and misogyny, this volume reminds us of the myriad ways women have challenged and confronted injustices and inequalities. The women and their activities shared in "Compelled to Act" are diverse in time, place, and purpose, but there are some common threads. In their attempts to correct wrongs, achieve just solutions, and create change, women experienced multiple sites of resistance, both formal and informal. The acts of speaking out, of organizing, of picketing and protesting were characterized as unnatural for women, as violations of gender and societal norms, and as dangerous to the state and to family stability. Still as these accounts demonstrate, prairie women felt compelled to respond to women’s needs, to challenges to family security, both health and economic, and to the need for community. They reacted with the resources at hand, and beyond, to support effective action, joining the ranks of women all over the world seeking political and social agency to create a society more responsive to the needs of women and their children.

Conservatism and American Political Development

Author : Brian J. Glenn
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195373928
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Conservatism and American Political Development written by Brian J. Glenn and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book is the first to offer an overview of the impact of conservatism on 20th century American political development locating its origins in the New Deal and then focusing on how conservatives acted within government once they began to achieve power in the late 1960s.

Conservatism

Author : Edmund Fawcett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691233993
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Conservatism written by Edmund Fawcett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conservatism focuses on an exemplary core of France, Britain, Germany and the United States. It describes the parties, politicians and thinkers of the right, bringing out strengths and weaknesses in conservative thought"--Provided by publisher.

Dialectics as Sport

Author : Tom Donovan
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628942452
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Dialectics as Sport written by Tom Donovan and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conservative

Author : Jim DeMint
Publisher : Fidelis Books
ISBN 13 : 1642932248
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Conservative written by Jim DeMint and published by Fidelis Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans hunger for something real to believe in—leaders and ideas that actually work to make their lives better. The current political system is not satisfying this hunger and people are rebelling. Polished, experienced candidates in both the Democrat and Republican parties are facing stiff competition from radical, but more authentic, candidates. Jim DeMint and Rachel Bovard make a rock-solid case for why the principles that made America the freest, most prosperous nation in world history must be reclaimed to prevent our demise. Conservative is the simple truth on which this book is built; we all tend to keep what works. This exploration delivers the goods on what has and will work for America.

Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Gateway Editions
ISBN 13 : 162157878X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism written by Russell Kirk and published by Gateway Editions. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk’s groundbreaking book The Conservative Mind. Four years later, he published a pithy, wry, philosophical summary of what conservatism really means. Originally titled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism, this little book was essentially a popular version of The Conservative Mind. Now, a century after its author’s birth, this neglected gem has been recovered. It remains what Kirk intended it to be: an accessible introduction to conservative ideas, especially for the young. With a new title and an introduction by the eminent intellectual historian Wilfred M. McClay, Russell Kirk’s Concise Guide to Conservatism arrives with uncanny timing. The movement that Kirk defined in 1953 is today so contested and fragmented that no one seems able to say with confidence what conservatism means. This book, as fresh and prophetic as the day it was published sixty years ago, is a reminder that no one can match Russell Kirk in engaging people’s minds and imaginations—an indispensable task in reviving our civilization.

The Conservative Tradition in America

Author : Charles W. Dunn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742522343
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Conservative Tradition in America written by Charles W. Dunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive account identifies different strands of conservative thought while it analyzes the current state and future prospects of conservatism.

Fighting Words

Author : Ben J. Wattenberg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312382995
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Words written by Ben J. Wattenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than 40 years as a Washington insider, the former liberal presidential aide turned neo-conservative and Ronald Reagan's favorite Democrat offers a frank, biting narrative of his life in the political arena.