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• catalog abstract ""In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers' accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange Country, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century." "Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism." "While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange Country's rise from "nut country" to political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism. Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens - and often upsets - our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11994579.
• catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1945-1989.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers' accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange Country, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century."".
• catalog description ""Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-377) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction -- The setting -- "A sleeping giant is awakening": right-wing mobilization, 1960-1963 -- The grassroots Goldwater campaign -- The conservative worldview at the grass roots -- The birth of Populist Conservatism -- New social issues and resurgent evangelicalism -- Epilogue.".
• catalog description "She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism." "While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange Country's rise from "nut country" to political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism. Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens - and often upsets - our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 395 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0691059039 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Politics and society in twentieth-century America".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1945-1989.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "320.52/0973 21".
• catalog subject "Conservatism United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "E839.5 .M32 2001".
• catalog subject "Right and left (Political science) History 20th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The setting -- "A sleeping giant is awakening": right-wing mobilization, 1960-1963 -- The grassroots Goldwater campaign -- The conservative worldview at the grass roots -- The birth of Populist Conservatism -- New social issues and resurgent evangelicalism -- Epilogue.".
• catalog title "Suburban warriors : the origins of the new American Right / Lisa McGirr.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".