America's Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
Robert B. Horwitz
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Description for America's Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
Hardcover. Conservatism has been the most important political doctrine in the United States for nearly four decades. It has dominated the intellectual debate and largely set the policy agenda, even during years of Democratic electoral control. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
Conservatism has been the most important political doctrine in the United States for nearly four decades. It has dominated the intellectual debate and largely set the policy agenda, even during years of Democratic electoral control.
But 21st century conservatism has moved far beyond even the Reagan Revolution of small government, lower taxes and a respect for tradition. The alliance of libertarians, neoconservatives, and the Christian right has launched anxious and angry attacks on the purported homosexual agenda, the “hoax” of climate change, the rule by experts and elites, and the banishment of religion from the public ... Read more
Conservatism has been the most important political doctrine in the United States for nearly four decades. It has dominated the intellectual debate and largely set the policy agenda, even during years of Democratic electoral control.
But 21st century conservatism has moved far beyond even the Reagan Revolution of small government, lower taxes and a respect for tradition. The alliance of libertarians, neoconservatives, and the Christian right has launched anxious and angry attacks on the purported homosexual agenda, the “hoax” of climate change, the rule by experts and elites, and the banishment of religion from the public ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745664293
SKU
V9780745664293
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About Robert B. Horwitz
Robert Horwitz is professor in the department of communication at the University of California San Diego.
Reviews for America's Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
"An excellent read, essential for understanding what is happening in US politics today." Morning Star "Tea Partiers' contemptible views have little place in mainstream civil society, and Horowitz’s does a good job of laying bare their intellectual bankruptcy." LSE Review of Books Horwitz opportunely ... Read more