A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American
politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the
Republican Party  “A timely and expert guide to one of
today’s most hot-button political issues.”—Publishers Weekly
(starred review)  “A sober, knowledgeable scholarly
analysis of a timely issue.”—Kirkus Reviews Â
“[Ziegler’s] argument [is] that, over the course of decades,
the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork for an insurgent
candidate like Trump.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Â
The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative
Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified
with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of
the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the
anti-abortion movement helped to forge and later upend this
alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in
Buckley v. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP
by changing how campaign spending—and the First Amendment—work.
The anti-abortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of
money in U.S. politics and persuaded conservative voters to fixate
on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape
that abortion foes created fueled the GOP’s embrace of populism
and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view
of the slow drift to extremes in American politics—and explains
how it had everything to do with the strange intersection of
right-to-life politics and campaign spending.
General
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| Authors: |
Mary Ziegler
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
344 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-27418-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-300-27418-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780300274189 |
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