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A Conspiratorial Life - Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism (Hardcover)
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A Conspiratorial Life - Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism (Hardcover)
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Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)-founder
of the John Birch Society-is easily one of the most significant
architects of our current political moment. In A Conspiratorial
Life, the first biography of Welch, Edward H. Miller delves deep
into the life of an overlooked figure whose ideas nevertheless
reshaped the American right. A child prodigy who entered college at
age 12, Welch became an unlikely candy magnate, founding the
company that created Sugar Daddies, Junior Mints, and other famed
confections. In 1958, he funneled his wealth into establishing the
organization that would define his legacy and change the face of
American politics: the John Birch Society. Though the group's
paranoiac right-wing nativism was dismissed by conservative
thinkers like William F. Buckley, its ideas gradually moved from
the far-right fringe into the mainstream. By exploring the
development of Welch's political worldview, A Conspiratorial Life
shows how the John Birch Society's rabid libertarianism-and its
highly effective grassroots networking-became a profound, yet often
ignored or derided influence on the modern Republican Party. Miller
convincingly connects the accusatory conservatism of the midcentury
John Birch Society to the inflammatory rhetoric of the Tea Party,
the Trump administration, Q, and more. As this book makes clear,
whether or not you know his name or what he accomplished, it's hard
to deny that we're living in Robert Welch's America.
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