Search for the American Right Wing (eBook)

An Analysis of the Social Science Record, 1955-1987

William B. Hixson (Autor)

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2015
386 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7274-9 (ISBN)

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This book is a creative synthesis of the published scholarly research on the contemporary American right wing from the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to the election of Ronald Reagan as President. Unlike most other syntheses, it directly engages that research by critically analyzing the major explanations emerging from it. Emphasizing neither the lives and backgrounds of the scholars that he discusses nor paradigms within the social sciences as a whole, William Hixson focuses on the way the concepts of individual researchers have interacted with accumulating evidence on the American right, and how this evidence has led to new and more comprehensive theories. Hixson first summarizes and evaluates the research on the major developments analyzed by scholars—the social sources of "McCarthyism," the "radical right" of the early 1960s, George Wallace's constituency in his Presidential campaigns, and the emerging "new right" of the late 1970s. He then compares the interpretations of the two most influential students of the right wing, Seymour Martin Lipset and Michael Paul Rogin. Finally, he offers his own explanations, suggesting that the right wing is both a mass and elite phenomenon, that its durability comes from its appeal to the upwardly mobile, especially in economically expanding regions, and that far from being either "traditionalist" or reactive, it represents a proactive defense of values associated with late nineteenth-century "modernization."Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: activism • Advanced capitalism • adventurism • American Academy of Political and Social Science • American capitalism • American Conservative Union • American Frontier • American imperialism • American Independent Party • Americanism (ideology) • American middle class • americans • American System (economic plan) • America Votes • Anglophobia • Anti-Americanism • Anti-Communism • Anti-intellectualism in American Life • christian fundamentalism • Christian Right • Citizens (Spanish political party) • classical republicanism • communism • Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism • conservative judaism • Conspiracy Theory • counter-revolutionary • Dealignment • democracy in America • Equal Rights Amendment • Ethnocentrism • far-right politics • Foreign policy of the United States • Frank Meyer (political philosopher) • Germanophile • Hippie • House Un-American Activities Committee • huey long • Ideology • Immigration to the United States • Internationalism (politics) • Jack Newfield • left-wing politics • Liberal conservatism • Liberalism • Liberalism in the United States • Liberty Lobby • Majoritarianism • McCarthyism • Moral Majority • Moral Relativism • National Affairs • National Government (United Kingdom) • Nationalist Movement • National Labor Relations Act • National policy • Nativism (politics) • New Deal coalition • New Politics (magazine) • Orwellian • Pacifism • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Populism • Postmodernism • progressivism • Propaganda in the United States • Puritans • Radical centrism • Radicalism (historical) • Radical right (Europe) • Radical right (United States) • Radicals (UK) • Reactionary • Realigning election • Republicanism • Republican Party (United States) • Richard Hofstadter • Right-Wing Authoritarianism • right-wing politics • right-wing populism • Rockefeller Republican • Special Rights • Strategic goal (military) • The American Political Tradition • The Conscience of a Conservative • The New York Intellectuals • The Paranoid Style in American Politics • Tory socialism • To Save America • Traditionalist conservatism • un-american • United States • victorian morality • Wars of national liberation • William F. Buckley Jr. • william jennings bryan • Woodrow Wilson
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7274-X / 140087274X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7274-9 / 9781400872749