Author:
Story, Ronald.
Imprint:Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2008.
Descriptionxii, 193 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note:PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT: -- First steps, 1945-1968 -- Expanding the base, 1968-1980 -- Clean sweep, 1980-2000 -- PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS: 1. FIRST STEPS, 1945-1968: -- 1. David Lawrence, America turns the corner, July 11, 1947 -- 2. Strom Thurmond et al., Platform of the States' Rights Democratic Party, 1948 -- 3. Joseph R. McCarthy, Lincoln Day Address, February 20, 1950 -- 4. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell Address to Congress, 1951 -- 5. Russell Kirk, from The Conservative Mind, 1953 -- 6. William F. Buckley, Jr., Publisher's statement on founding National Review, November 19, 1955 -- 7. National Review, Why the South must prevail, August 24, 1957 -- 8. Robert Welch, from The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, 1959 -- 9. Barry Goldwater, from The Conscience of a conservative, 1960 -- 10. Young Americans for Freedom, the Sharon statement, 1960 -- 11. Milton Friedman, from Capitalism and Freedom, 1962 -- 12. Ronald Reagan, Rendezvous with destiny, October 24, 1964 -- 13. L. Brent Bozell, Who is accommodating to what? May 4, 1965 -- 2. EXPANDING THE BASE: -- 14. George Wallce for President brochure, 1968 -- 15. Spiro Agnew, Two Speeches, October 20, 1969 and October 30, 1969 -- 16. Frank S. Meyer, Defense of the republic, April 7, 1970 -- 17. Donald Atwell Zoll, Capital Punishment, December 3, 1971 -- 18. Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Confidential memorandum: attack on American free enterprise system, August 23, 1971 -- 19. Jeff MacNelly, "You in a heap o' trouble, son," March 17, 1972 -- 20. Richard M. Nixon, Labor Day radio address, 1972 -- 21. National Rifle Association, Act before it is too late, September 1974 -- 22.Nathan Glazer, from Affirmative Discrimination, 1975 -- 23. Alan Crawford, The taxfighters are coming! November 1975 -- 24. Phyllis Schlafly, Interview with the Washington Star, January 18, 1976 -- 25. Committee on the Present Danger, Common sense and the common danger, 1976 -- 26. Eugene H. Methvin, The NEA: a Washington lobby run rampant, November 1978 -- 27. Hugh Haynie, American weakness, September 1979 -- 28. Paul Weyrich, Building the moral majority, August 1979 -- 29. Ronald Reagan, Nomination acceptance speech, 1980 -- 3. CLEAN SWEEP, 1980-2000: -- 30. George Gilder, from Wealth and Poverty, 1981 -- 31. Ronald Reagan, Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 1983 -- 32. J.A. Dorn, Social Security: continuing crisis or real reform? 1983 -- 33. Southern Baptist Convention, Resolution on abortion, June 1984 -- 34. President's Commission on Privatization, report on privatization, march 18, 1988 -- 35. Antonin Scalia, Opinion on the juvenile death penalty, 1988 -- 36. William G. Laffer III, George Bush's hidden tax: the explosion in regulation, 1992 -- 37. Jenny Westberg, Abortion drawings, 1993 -- 38. David Frum, from Dead Right, 1994 -- 39. Southern Baptist convention, Resolution on homosexual marriage, June 1996 -- 40. Randy Tate, Middle-class families need a flat tax, 1999 -- 41. Tim LaHaye, Anti-Christ philosophy already controls America and Europe, September 1999 -- 42. George W. Bush, Nomination acceptance speech, 2000 -- APPENDIXES: A chronology of the conservative movement (1947-2000)
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references, "Selected bibliography" (p. 173-178), and index
