The conservative century
Subtitle: from reaction to revolution
By: Gregory L. Schneider.
Series: Critical issues in history
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780742542846; 9780742563940
Subjects: Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Conservatism -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Description: "This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in the twentieth century up to the present. Gregory L. Schneider traces the course of a once-reactionary movement opposed to progressive reform and the New Deal and describes how it came to advance alternative policies and program that revolutionized the shaping of domestic politics, foreign policy, and economic policy. Along the way he profiles such influential thinkers as William F. Buckley, Frank Meyer, Henry Regnery, and Barry Goldwater. Schneider details the decline of liberalism after the 1960s, how that event helped conservatives gain political power, and how their energized activism and organization culminated in the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Schneider also describes how the years since the Reagan Revolution have been decidedly mixed for American conservatives."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.