Cadres for conservatism
Subtitle: Young Americans for Freedom and the rise of the contemporary right
By: Gregory L. Schneider.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Young Americans for Freedom; Conservatism -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
Description: In this history of the "other Sixties," Gregory L. Schneider traces the influence of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative political group that locked horns with the New Left and spawned many of the major players in the contemporary conservative movement, from the Goldwater campaign in 1964 to Reagan's revolution in the 1980s. Cadres for Conservatism reveals how young political conservatives, unlike their leftist counterparts, avoided fracture in the wake of the Sixties. Rather, YAF continued to serve as a seedbed for future conservative leaders, many of whom drew on the contacts and (counter- )activism of their youth to consolidate conservative power.

In this history of the "other Sixties," Gregory L. Schneider traces the influence of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative political group that locked horns with the New Left and spawned many of the major players in the contemporary conservative movement, from the Goldwater campaign in 1964 to Reagan's revolution in the 1980s.

Cadres for Conservatism reveals how young political conservatives, unlike their leftist counterparts, avoided fracture in the wake of the Sixties. Rather, YAF continued to serve as a seedbed for future conservative leaders, many of whom drew on the contacts and (counter-)activism of their youth to consolidate conservative power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Stirrings on the right; title: Join together and fall apart, 1960-1962; title: Of Camelot and communism, 1961-1963; title: Going with Goldwater; title: Why not victory? : YAF and Vietnam, 1965-1968; title: Up against the wall : YAF and the new left; title: Trads and libs : schism on the right; title: We are the new politics, 1971-1974; title: Revival and collapse, 1975-1986.