The right : the hundred-year war for American conservatism
by Continetti, Matthew (Author)
Summary
"When most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan, with his politics and policies front and center. Yet this narrow view of a movement obscures the whole, leaving many to question: How did Donald Trump win the presidency? And what is the future of the Republi... Full description
- Introduction: 1150 Seventeenth Street
- Normalcy and its discontents
- The revolution of 1932
- From World War to Cold War
- Ike, McCarthy, and the new conservatism
- A movement grows
- New frontiers
- The great disruption
- Nixon's conservatives
- The prairie fire
- President Reagan
- New world order
- The freedom agenda
- The crisis of the twenty-first century
- The viral president
- Conclusion: American conservatism.