Vanishing Tradition

Perspectives on American Conservatism
Herausgeber: Gottfried, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A critical examination of the American conservative movement, with special emphasis on its development as a media phenomenon. As a whole, the book's argument is that the movement is neither conservative nor really a movement at all but a conglomeration of interests whose sponsors pay celebrities for promoting their causes"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781501749858
• ISBN-10: 1501749854
• Artikelnr.: 58018540

Autorenporträt

Paul Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College. He is the author of thirteen books, most recently Fascism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Right in Changing Perspective
1. The Big Conservatism and the American Exceptionalism
2. The Significance of the M. E. Bradford Affair
3. The Tory Right and the American Conservative Movement: Parallel
Universes?
4. Who Funds Conservatism, Inc.?
5. Imagination and Its Failures: The Struggle of a Conservative American
Foreign Policy
6. The Contradictions of Catholic Neoconservatism
7. Trump, Neoconservatives, and the Misrepresentation of the American
Founding
8. Why the Alt Right Is Not Going Anywhere (Regardless of What We Call It)
9. The Unwanted Southern Conservative
10. Republican Voters and Conservative Ideology
11. Afterword: The Never-Ending Purges