A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism

by Jonathan M. Schoenwald

Book Overview

How did American conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s? What political strategies originating during the decade enabled the modern conservative movement to flourish? And how did mainstream and extremist conservatives, frequently at odds over tactics and ideology, each play a role in reshaping the Republican Party? In the 1960s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195134737
• ISBN13: 9780195134735
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"