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Rightward Bound: The Rise of Conservatism in Postwar America

Rightward Bound : The Rise of Conservatism in Postwar America

Rightward Bound: The Rise of Conservatism in Postwar America

RIGHTWARD BOUND: THE RISE OF CONSERVATISM IN POSTWAR AMERICA Introduction: Helms, Reagan and the Great Reversal I. The Wilderness Years, 1945-1960 Conservatism in a Liberal Age The New American Right (1955) The Remnant Patron Saint: William F. Buckley Jr, National review (1955) YAF (1960) The Problem of “Extremism” Robert Welch and the JBS Lemuel Boulware and the Free Market Gospel II. A Choice, Not an Echo, 1960-1964 The Conservative Takeover of the GOP F. Clifton White and Draft Goldwater Campaign “Suburban Warriors” Rockefeller, Goldwater and the 1964 Convention III. Seeds of the Reagan Revolution, 1964-1980 Toward the New Right Richard Viguerie and Direct Mail Toward the Christian Right Falwell, Ministers and Marchers” (1965) Christian Schools Controversy (1977-79) Moral Majority (1979) A Time For Choosing Reagan (1966) The Tax Revolt Proposition 13 (1978) Conclusion: The Triumph and Agony of the American Right Legacies of the Reagan Revolution 2008-2010 : Decline? Revival?

1964 Election Blue Indicates Johnson (Dem); Red Goldwater (Rep)

Jesse Helms--Manage and On-Air Editorialist, WRAL Raleigh, NC

Jesse Helms BecomesNorth Carolina’s First Republican Senator in the 20th Century (1972)

1972 Election

Reagan Campaign (1980)

RIGHTWARD BOUND: THE RISE OF CONSERVATISM IN POSTWAR AMERICA Introduction: Helms, Reagan and the Great Reversal I. The Wilderness Years, 1945-1960 Conservatism in a Liberal Age The New American Right (1955) The Remnant Patron Saint: William F. Buckley Jr, National review (1955) YAF (1960) The Problem of “Extremism” Robert Welch and the JBS Lemuel Boulware and the Free Market Gospel II. A Choice, Not an Echo, 1960-1964 The Conservative Takeover of the GOP F. Clifton White and Draft Goldwater Campaign “Suburban Warriors” Rockefeller, Goldwater and the 1964 Convention III. Seeds of the Reagan Revolution, 1964-1980 Toward the New Right Richard Viguerie and Direct Mail Toward the Christian Right Falwell, Ministers and Marchers” (1965) Christian Schools Controversy (1977-79) Moral Majority (1979) A Time For Choosing Reagan (1966) The Tax Revolt Proposition 13 (1978) Conclusion: The Triumph and Agony of the American Right Legacies of the Reagan Revolution 2008-2010 : Decline? Revival?

Nixon and Rockefeller

Daniel Bell et al., The New American Right (1955)

Buckley--Modern Conservatism’s “Patron Saint”

National Review

William F. Buckley, Jr.

JBS Founder Robert Welch

YAF Pro-War Rally (1968)

Lemuel Boulware

Goldwater (1964)

Sen. Barry Goldwater

The Conscience of a Conservative (1960)

YAF Button (1964)

Grassroots Organizing for Goldwater--Phoenix (1964)

Goldwater

Goldwater

Goldwater Campaign, 1964

Alice Moore--West Virginia Textbook Fight

Anita Bryant

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III. Seeds of the Reagan Revolution, 1964-1980 Toward the New Right Richard Viguerie and Direct Mail Toward the Christian Right Falwell, Ministers and Marchers” (1965) Christian Schools Controversy (1977-79) Moral Majority (1979) A Time For Choosing Reagan (1966) The Tax Revolt Proposition 13 (1978) Conclusion: The Triumph and Agony of the American Right Legacies of the Reagan Revolution 2008-2010 : Decline? Revival?

Billy Graham and Martin Luther King (1957)

Rev. Jerry Falwell

The Thomas Road Baptist Church--Then and Now

“Hard Hat Riot” (1970)

Howard Jarvis, leader of Prop 13 Campaign

Rightward Bound: The Rise of Conservatism in Postwar America

Hoover Roosevelt

Unemployment Rate 35 30 25 as percent of civilian labor 20 force 15 as percent of 10 civilian private non-farm labor 5 force 0 1900 1910 1915 1920 1921 1925 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 Year Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S., Millennial Edition, Vol. 2, 98-99 (2006)

Opposition to Prop 13

Reagan For Governor (1966)

Buckley After 1964--”Making Conservatism Fun” (1967)

The Reagans in 1964