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Defining Conservatism

Sources and Suggested Reading

  • John A. Andrew III, The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997).

  • Daniel Bell, ed., The Radical Right: The New American Right Expanded and Updated (New York: Anchor, 1964).

  • Mary C. Brennan, Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace: Conservative Women and the Crusade Against Communism (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008).

  • Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

  • Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

  • Donald T. Critchlow and Nancy MacLean, Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).

  • Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995).

  • Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011).

  • David Farber, The Rise and Fall of American Conservatism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).

  • David Farber and Jeff Roche, eds., The Conservative Sixties (NY: Peter Lang, 2003).

  • Jerome L. Himmelstein, To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism (Berkeley: UC Press, 1990).

  • Kevin Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

  • Matthew Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

  • George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (New York: Basic Books, 1976).

  • William Martin, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1996).

  • Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).

  • Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York: Nation Books, 2009).

  • Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (New York: Scribner, 2008).

  • Kim Phillps-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009).

  • Gregory L. Schneider, The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).

  • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, ed., Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2013).

  • Steven M. Teles, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).

  • Daniel K. Williams, God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

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