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Sources and Suggested Reading:

  • Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster, The Radical Right: Report on the John Birch Society and Its Allies (NY: Random House, 1967).

  • Heather Hendershot, Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line (New York: HarperCollins, 2016).

  • Heather Hendershot, What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).

  • Nicole Hemmer, “The Dealers and the Darling: Conservative Media and the Candidacy of Barry Goldwater,” in Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape, edited by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2013), 114-43.

  • Nicole Hemmer, “From ‘Faith in Facts' to ‘Fair and Balanced': Conservative Media, Liberal Bias, and the Origins of Balance,” in Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), 126-43.

  • Nicole Hemmer, Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

  • James Brian McPherson, The Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media's Role in the Rise of the Right (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008).

  • Matthew Pressman, “Objectivity and Its Discontents: The Struggle for the Soul of American Journalism in the 1960s and 1970s,” in Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), 96-113.

  • Sam Lebovic, "When the 'Mainstream Media' Was Conservative: Media Criticism in the Age of Reform," in Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), 63-76.

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