Search for the American Right Wing: An Analysis of the Social Science Record, 1955-1987

by William B. Hixson

Book Overview

This book is a creative synthesis of the published scholarly research on the contemporary American right wing from the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to the election of Ronald Reagan as President. Unlike most other syntheses, it directly engages that research by critically analyzing the major explanations emerging from it. Emphasizing neither the lives and backgrounds of the scholars that he discusses nor paradigms within the social sciences as a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691086230
• ISBN13: 9780691086231
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"