The Conservative Century : From Reaction to Revolution (Critical Issues in American History)

Schneider, Gregory L.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers（2009/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780742542853
• DDC分類 320.520973

Full Description

This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in the twentieth century up to the present. Gregory L. Schneider traces the course of a once-reactionary movement opposed to progressive reform and the New Deal and describes how it came to advance alternative policies and programs that revolutionized the shaping of domestic politics, foreign policy, and economic policy. Along the way he profiles such influential thinkers as William F. Buckley, Frank Meyer, Henry Regnery, and Barry Goldwater. He also details how the decline of liberalism after the 1960s helped conservatives gain political power, and how their energized activism and organization culminated in the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Schneider also describes how the years since the Reagan Revolution have been decidedly mixed for American conservatives.

Contents

Chapter 1: The Nemesis of Democracy
Chapter 2: Roads Not Taken
Chapter 3: Prophets, Proselytizers, and Pundits
Chapter 4: Getting to Know (and to Like) the People
Chapter 5: Plunging Into Politics
Chapter 6: Revolution . . .
Chapter 7: . . . And Its Discontents
Chapter 8: Between Principles and Politics