Turning Right in the Sixties
Subtitle: The Conservative Capture of the GOP
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780807858646
Subjects: Government - U.S. Government; Political Process - Political Parties; United States - 20th Century; History : United States - 20th Century; Political Science / Political Parties; Political Science : Government - U.S. Government; Republican Party; Barry Goldwater; U.S. president;  Lyndon Johnson; Ronald Reagan; political science; political history; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations
First sentence: The Republican Party, plagued by philosophical, geographical, and socioeconomic differences among its members, struggled through an identity crisis in the late 1950s and early 1960s that eventually shifted power internally from liberals to conservatives.