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Suburban Warriors - The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Suburban Warriors - The Origins of the New American Right - Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
Series: Politics and Society in Modern America
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In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on
hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the
political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John
Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist
puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California
Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training
in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet,
in Utt's home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class
suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement
that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the
spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century. Suburban
Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee
klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of
anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education;
pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and
new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of
community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We
learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political
activity. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of
marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one
formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles
and bright futures. She describes how these suburban pioneers
created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion
of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western
libertarianism. While introducing these rank-and-file activists,
McGirr chronicles Orange County's rise from "nut country" to
political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution
of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment
fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical
Protestantism. Her original contribution to the social history of
politics broadens--and often upsets--our understanding of the deep
and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America.
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