Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement
Michael J. Lee, "Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement "
English | ISBN: 1611861276 | 2014 | 312 pages | PDF | 1179 KB
English | ISBN: 1611861276 | 2014 | 312 pages | PDF | 1179 KB
Creating Conservatism charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States. Dedicated conservatives have argued for decades that the conservative movement was a product of print, rather than a march, a protest, or a pivotal moment of persecution. The Road to Serfdom, Ideas Have Consequences, Witness, The Conservative Mind, God and Man at Yale, The Conscience of a Conservative, and other mid-century texts became influential not only among conservative office-holders, office-seekers, and well-heeled donors but also at dinner tables, school board meetings, and neighborhood reading groups. These books are remarkable both because they enumerated conservative political positions and because their memorable language demonstrated
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