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1 online resource (x, 210 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index. |
| Summary |
In Turning Right in the Sixties, Mary Brennan describes how conservative Americans from a variety of backgrounds, feeling disfranchised and ignored, joined forces to make their voices heard and by 1968 had gained enough power within the party to play the decisive role in determining who would be chosen as the presidential nominee. Building on Barry Goldwater's shortlived bid for the presidential nomination in 1960, Republican conservatives forged new coalitions, aided by an increasingly vocal conservative press, and began to organize at the grassroots level. Their goal was to nominate a conservative in the next election, and eventually they gained enough support to guarantee Goldwater the nomination in 1964. Liberal Republicans, as Brennan demonstrates, failed to stop this swing to the right. Brennan argues that Goldwater's loss to Lyndon Johnson in the general election has obscured the more significant fact that conservatives had wrestled control of the Republican Party from the moderates who had dominated it for years. The lessons conservatives learned in that campaign aided them in 1968 when they were able to force Richard Nixon to cast himself as a conservative candidate, says Brennan, and also laid the groundwork for Ronald Reagan's presidential victory in 1980. |
| Contents |
An uneasy alliance -- Challenging the politics of consensus: conservative Republicans and the election of 1960 -- Seizing the moment -- Baptism by fire -- Biding their time -- Victory? |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
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Republikanische Partei (USA) |
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Conservatism -- United States.
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Conservatism. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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Politics and government. |
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1945-1989 |
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Geschichte 1960-1970 |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brennan, Mary C. Turning right in the sixties. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995 0807822302 (DLC) 95011799 (OCoLC)32242563 |
| ISBN |
0585003785 (electronic book) |
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9780585003788 (electronic book) |
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0807822302 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807822302 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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