Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties
and Reagan's Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed era when
the forces of a conservative counter-revolution cohered. These
years marked a significant moral and cultural turning point in
which the conservative movement became the motive force driving
politics for the ensuing three decades.
Interpreting the movement as more than a backlash against the
rampant liberalization of American culture, racial conflict, the
Vietnam War, and Watergate, these provocative and innovative essays
look below the surface, discovering the tectonic shifts that paved
the way for Reagan's America. They reveal strains at the heart of
the liberal coalition, resulting from struggles over jobs, taxes,
and neighborhood reconstruction, while also investigating how the
deindustrialization of northern cities, the rise of the suburbs,
and the migration of people and capital to the Sunbelt helped
conservatism gain momentum in the twentieth century. They
demonstrate how the forces of the right coalesced in the 1970s and
became, through the efforts of grassroots activists and political
elites, a movement to reshape American values and policies.
A penetrating and provocative portrait of a critical decade in
American history, "Rightward Bound" illuminates the seeds of both
the successes and the failures of the conservative revolution. It
helps us understand how, despite conservatism's rise, persistent
tensions remain today between its political power and the
achievements of twentieth-century liberalism.
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