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Rebels all!
a short history of the conservative mind in postwar America
By Mattson, Kevin
- ISBN
- 978-0-81354-343-7
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2008
Mattson (history, Ohio Univ.) begins his history of the modern conservative movement in America with the mid-1950s. He argues that contrary to most views of the 1960s, the conservative movement was alive and well then and that conservatives during this period adapted the confrontational tactics of the Left. Later, during the 1970s and 1980s, they used the language of the Left to further their agenda. As an example, Mattson discuss...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
