Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945-65

by Niels Bjerre-Poulsen

Right Face tells the compelling story of how the American conservative movement in the two decades following World War II managed to move from obscurity to the center stage of national politics. When Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 defeated the conservative champion Robert Taft and won the Republican presidential nomination, many on the American right felt that they had become homeless within the established party-system. The brand of liberalism which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8772898097
• ISBN13: 9788772898094
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Length: 336 Pages