"In Paving the Way for Reagan: The Publications of Conservative Opinion and the Forging of the Reagan Foreign Policy author Laurence R. Jurdem delves into the critical role Human Events, National Review, and Commentary played in shaping the modern conservative movement. Those wh…
"Over the last half century, there has been a marked increase in ideological conservatism among African Americans, with nearly 50% of black Americans describing themselves as conservative in the 2000s, as compared to 10% in the 1970s. Support for redistributive initiatives has l…
"The Vietnam War was the central political issue of the 1960s and 1970s. This study by Seth Offenbach explains how the conflict shaped modern conservatism. The war caused disputes between the pro-war anti-communists right and libertarian conservatives who opposed the war. At the…
A portrait of a commanding American politician and of the conservative movement he forged. Early on, Helms realized the power of television, and across North Carolina in the 1960s, he battled the civil rights movement, campus radicalism, and the sexual revolution. Desegregation …
In this seminal work, top scholar, activist and author Manning Marable analyses the complex strategy of resistance that has captured the imaginations of oppressed peoples across the globe.
From the publisher. In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war and explores the war s impact on …
Publisher's description: "Liberals lie about Reagan's victory because when Reagan won the Cold War, he proved them wrong on everything they had done and said throughout the Cold War. It is their last defense to fifty years of treason."--Ann Coulter. Since the fall of the Berlin …