-Caveat Lector- As to Goldwater, Mr AuH20, see these two new books. Michael Pugliese Before the Storm Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. By Rick Perlstein. http://www.booknotes.org/archive/bn060301.asp http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0122/perlstein.shtml Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right Lisa McGirr 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's 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 County, 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 County'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. Lisa McGirr is Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University. Reviews: "McGirr paints a complex picture . . . Incisive, yet fair, this represents an important standing of how antimodernist ideologies continue to thrive."--Publishers Weekly "The strength of her book is her explanation of the growth of the conservative movement through the stories of women and men who moved to the Orange County suburbs . . . Remember welfare? Whatever happened to it? Where did affirmative action go? [McGirr explains] their demise and that of many other ideas that seemed so permanent, so much a part of a national consensus, in 1964."--Bill Boyarski, Los Angeles Times "A focused, stimulating account that demonstrates that many of the best contemporary works of the Sixties are about the rise of the Right."--Library Journal "A fascinating tale . . . Suburban Warriors goes a long way to explaining the origins of a movement whose influence remains formidable to this day."--Stephen Dale, Washington Post Book World Endorsements: "A landmark study that will enlighten anyone who cares about the evolution of American politics since World War II. With Lisa McGirr's thorough, sophisticated, smoothly crafted exploration of Orange County conservatism, the history of the modern Right has finally come of age."--Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, coauthor of America Divided and The Populist Persuasion "In her impressively researched, gracefully written book, Lisa McGirr convincingly demonstrates that historians, who have been preoccupied with the Left in the 1960s, need to develop a deeper comprehension of how conservatives in places such as Orange County reconfigured American political culture. Readers will find her attempt to understand them, rather than dismiss or condemn them, both rewarding and challenging."--William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill More endorsements Table of Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER 1 The Setting 20 CHAPTER 2 "A Sleeping Giant Is Awakening": Right-Wing Mobilizatio, 1960-1963 54 CHAPTER 3 The Grassroots Goldwater Campaign 111 CHAPTER 4 The Conservative Worldview at the Grass Roots 147 CHAPTER 5 The Birth of Populist Conservatism 187 CHAPTER 6 New Social Issues and Resurgent Evangelicalism 217 EPILOGUE 262 Notes 275 Bibliography 351 Index 379 Series: Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America William Chafe, Gary Gerstle, and Linda Gordon, Editors Subject Areas http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7031.html <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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