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The rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000 : a brief history with documents
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- Creator
- Ronald Story, Bruce Laurie
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0312450648, 9780312450649
- OCLC
- ocn180190474
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178) and index
- Part 1. Introduction: The Making of a Movement -- First Steps, 1945-1968 -- Expanding the Base, 1968-1980 -- Clean Sweep, 1980-2000 -- Part 2. The Documents -- 1. First Steps, 1945-1968 -- 1. America Turns the Corner, July 11, 1947 / David Lawrence -- 2. Platform of the States' Rights Democratic Party, 1948 / Strom Thurmond et al. -- 3. Lincoln Day Address, February 20, 1950 / Joseph R. McCarthy -- 4. Farewell Address to Congress, 1951 / Douglas MacArthur -- 5. From The Conservative Mind, 1953 / Russell Kirk -- 6. Publisher's Statement on Founding National Review, November 19, 1955 / William F. Buckley Jr. -- 7. Why the South Must Prevail, August 24, 1957 / National Review -- 8. From The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, 1959 / Robert Welch -- 9. From The Conscience of a Conservative, 1960 / Barry Goldwater -- 10. The Sharon Statement, 1960 / Young Americans for Freedom -- 11. From Capitalism and Freedom, 1962 / Milton Friedman -- 12. Rendezvous with Destiny, October 24, 1964 / Ronald Reagan -- 13. Who Is Accommodating to What? May 4, 1965 / L. Brent Bozell -- 2. Expanding the Base, 1968-1980 -- 14. George Wallace for President Brochure, 1968 -- 15. Two Speeches, October 20, 1969, and October 30,1969 / Spiro Agnew -- 16. Defense of the Republic, April 7, 1970 / Frank S. Meyer -- 17. Capital Punishment, December 3, 1971 / Donald Atwell Zoll -- 18. Confidential Memorandum: Attack on American Free Enterprise System, August 23, 1971 / Lewis F. Powell Jr. -- 19. "You in a Heap o' Trouble, Son," March 17, 1972 / Jeff MacNelly -- 20. Labor Day Radio Address, 1972 / Richard M. Nixon -- 21. Act Before It Is Too Late, September 1974 / National Rifle Association -- 22. From Affirmative Discrimination, 1975 / Nathan Glazer -- 23. The Taxfighters Are Coming! November 1975 / Alan Crawford -- 24. Interview with the Washington Star, January 18, 1976 / Phyllis Schlafly -- 25. Common Sense and the Common Danger, 1976 / Committee on the Present Danger -- 26. The NEA: A Washington Lobby Run Rampant, November 1978 / Eugene H. Methvin -- 27. American Weakness, September 1979 / Hugh Haynie -- 28. Building the Moral Majority, August 1979 / Paul Weyrich -- 29. Nomination Acceptance Speech, 1980 / Ronald Reagan -- 3. Clean Sweep, 1980-2000 -- 30. From Wealth and Poverty, 1981 / George Gilder -- 31. Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 1983 / Ronald Reagan -- 32. Social Security: Continuing Crisis or Real Reform? 1983 / J. A. Dorn -- 33. Resolution on Abortion, June 1984 / Southern Baptist Convention -- 34. Report on Privatization, March 18, 1988 / President's Commission on Privatization -- 35. Opinion on the Juvenile Death Penalty, 1988 / Antonin Scalia -- 36. George Bush's Hidden Tax: The Explosion in Regulation, 1992 / William G. Laffer III -- 37. Abortion Drawings, 1993 / Jenny Westberg -- 38. From Dead Right, 1994 / David Frum -- 39. Resolution on Homosexual Marriage, June 1996 / Southern Baptist Convention -- 40. Middle-Class Families Need a Flat Tax, 1999 / Randy Tate -- 41. Anti-Christ Philosophy Already Controls America and Europe, September 1999 / Tim LaHaye -- 42. Nomination Acceptance Speech, 2000 / George W. Bush -- A Chronology of the Conservative Movement (1947-2000) -- Questions for Consideration