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Right Face - Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945-65 (Paperback)
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Right Face - Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945-65 (Paperback)
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Right Face tells the compelling story of how the American
conservative movement in the two decades following World War II
managed to move from obscurity to the center stage of national
politics. When Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 defeated the
conservative champion Robert Taft and won the Republican
presidential nomination, many on the American right felt that they
had become homeless within the established party-system. The brand
of liberalism which permeated the nation's intellectual life had
also become bipartisan political doctrine. The feeling of cultural
and political ostracism triggered a quest for an independent
conservative network of organizations, with the hope of either
"taking back" the Republican Party or creating a viable
alternative. The first part of Right Face recounts the often bitter
struggle to define the meaning of conservatism in modern America.
Part two concerns the search for influential national outlets for
conservative opinion, whereas part three focuses on the movement's
actual plunge into electoral politics - not least on its
well-planned takeover of the Republican Party machinery in 1964 and
the resulting presidential nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater.
An epilogue attempts to trace main currents in the evolution of
American conservatism since the 1960s, as well as to assess the
extent to which American conservatives have managed to create the
"Counter-Establishment" they set out to create more than half a
century ago. In a sense the conservatives actually set out on two
different quests: One was for intellectual respectability. The
other was for political power. As this study reveals, the two goals
were not always compatible. Based on extensive archival sources,
Right Face provides an incisive analysis of the conservative
movement and the forces that shaped it. With its blending of
intellectual and organizational developments, it adds an important
chapter to the history of American political culture in the 20th
century.
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