Rise of the Counter-Establishment: The Conservative Ascent to Political Power - Softcover

Sidney Blumenthal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402759118 ISBN 13: 9781402759116

Publisher: Union Square, 2008

Synopsis

A classic of American politics returns! How did the Republican Party build its infrastructure and arrive at the Reagan triumph in the years following Barry Goldwaters defeat and Nixons cataclysmic resignation in 1974? The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, a now seminal study of contemporary politics, provides the answers. Based on hundreds of interviews with key policy makers, Sidney Blumenthal shows how the conservatives orchestrated their influence to change American politics. By charting the rise of a small group of ideologues who transformed their vision into Washingtons ruling orthodoxy, he brilliantly illuminates the important currents of conservative thought and action, as well as the mythology of Reaganism. Although Blumenthal himself is unabashedly liberal, he is also frankly admiring of the organisational genius displayed by the right wing in finding donors and benefactors eager to fund the think tanks, institutes, magazines, and endowed academic chairs that made the Reagan Revolution - and the George W. Bush presidency - possible. He presents an indispensable lesson for any out-of-office party determined to regain political power.

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"'Skillful, extensively researched and unfailingly interesting' Boston Sunday Globe"

About this edition

• Publisher: Union Square
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402759118
• ISBN 13: 9781402759116
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384