World Turned Right Side up: A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

World Turned Right Side up: A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America Book

Under its magisterial title, the British journalist Godfrey Hodgson's study asks a simple question: how did so many conflicting ideologies unite under the banner of conservatism to completely alter the face of American politics? The conservative nostalgia for bygone morals and stricter social controls, Hodgson points out, is an uneasy bedfellow with the imperatives of free-market capitalism. While that conflict was muted or inaudible in the high-riding Reagan era, in the 1990s it has come to the fore, to the consternation of Newt Gingrich and his congressional allies. The conservative revolution has been derailed, at least temporarily, and this thorough and provocative book shows why. Read More

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    The World Turned Right Side Up is the brilliant chronicle of the ideasd and events that led to an astounding turnabout in American politics--when the citizens of the United States woke up to find that convervatism, once held in contempt, had become the nation's ruling ideology. Godfrey Hodgson, a veteran journalist and historian, traces the patriotic, religious, social and economic strands of conservatism over the past 15 years.

  • 0395822939
  • 9780395822937
  • GODFREY HODGSON
  • 31 December 1998
  • Houghton Mifflin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
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