Creating Conservatism

Creating Conservatism
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Publisher : MSU Press
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 1609174143
ISBN-13 : 9781609174149
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Book Synopsis Creating Conservatism by : Michael J. Lee

Download or read book Creating Conservatism written by Michael J. Lee and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 how to take those positions—functioning, in essence, as debate handbooks. Taking an expansive approach, the author documents the wide influence of the conservative canon on traditionalist and libertarian conservatives. By exploring the varied uses to which each founding text has been put from the Cold War to the culture wars, Creating Conservatism generates original insights about the struggle over what it means to think and speak conservatively in America.


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