America's right turn
Subtitle: from Nixon to Clinton
By: William C. Berman.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The American moment
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Description: In America's Right Turn, historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic context in which Republican conservatives operated over the past several decades and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics from Nixon to Clinton. Berman demonstrates the key roles played by conservative populism and by the conservative backlash to the rights revolution in the collapse of Democratic hegemony.

But, most importantly, he shows how conservative politics became allied with conservative economics - an alliance forged with singular success during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-209) and index.