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Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words That Made an American Movement

article resource:
NCA Bookshelf

Michael J. LeeMichigan State University Press, 2014

Creating Conservatism charts the vital role of canonical postu2013World War II (1945u20131964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States. Dedicated conservatives have argued for decades that the conservative movement was a product of print, rather than a march, a protest, or a pivotal moment of persecution. Taking an expansive approach, the author documents the wide influence of the conservative canon on traditionalist and libertarian conservatives. By exploring the varied uses to which each founding text has been put from the Cold War to the culture wars, Creating Conservatism generates original insights about the struggle over what it means to think and speak conservatively in America.