Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the …
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the …
Asserts that the Tea Party movement prefers to rewrite the history of the American Revolution as anti-intellectual and antipluralist.
The Christian Right never ceases to surprise professional observers of American politics. With the Christian coalition in disarray, many expected that the movement would play less of a role in the 2004 elections. But when exit polls reported that moral values were the most commo…
The New Right is constantly in the public eye in the Federal Republic and has assumed the role of intellectual vanguard of the Right since the start of the seventies. It promotes an assertive nationalism, German cultural distinctiveness and the idea that German Unification shoul…
"This is the first full-length study in English of German's New Right. In political terms the New Right occupies the grey area between the mainstream conservative and the extreme right-wing parties (DVU, NPD, Republikaner). In cultural terms the New Right is caught between the n…
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.