The Radical Right (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bell, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

Two vivid sets of images epitomize the dramatic course of the American right in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The main image is of a triumphant President Ronald Reagan, reasonably viewed as the most effec-tive president of recent decades. A second set of images comes from the bombing of a government building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh, a man linked to shadowy parts of the contemporary ultraright. The roots of Reaganism are conservative, intellectual, and political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, including currents that in those years were considered marginal and ex-tremist. The roots of the ultraright of the 1990s have intersecting though by no means identical sources.

Serious evaluation of the American right should begin with The Radical Right. It describes the main positions and composition of distinctive forces on the right in the first half of the 1950s and the next decade. It recognizes the right's vehement opposition to domestic and international Communism, its sharp rejec-tion of the New Deal, and its difficulty in distinguishing between the two. Bell's controversial point of departure is to regard the basic position of what he terms the radical right as excessive in its estimation of the Communist threat and unrealistic in its rejection of New Deal reforms. From this starting point, Bell and his authors evaluate the ways the right went beyond programs and the self-descriptions of its leaders and organizers.

The Radical Right explains McCarthyism and its successors in terms of conflicts over social status and the shape of American culture. Daniel Bell focuses on the social dislo-cation of significant groups in the post-New Deal decades. Many members of these groups perceived themselves as dispossessed and victimized by recent changes, even if it was not possible to regard them as having undergone any great suffering.

David Plotke's major new introduction discusses the book's argument, McCarthyism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 526
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351475549
• Artikelnr.: 49377565

Autorenporträt

Daniel Bell

Inhaltsangabe

The Contributors
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Preface
1: The Dispossessed: Daniel Bell
2: Interpretations of American Politics: Daniel Bell
3: The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt: Richard Hofstadter
4: Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited: A Postscript: Richard Hofstadter
5: The Intellectuals and the Discontented Classes: David Reisman and Nathan
Glazer
6: The Intellectuals and the Discontented Classes: Some Further
Reflections: David Reisman
7: The Revolt Against the Elite: Peter Viereck
8: The Philosophical "New Conservatism": Peter Viereck
9: Social Strains in America: Talcott Parsons
10: Social Strains in America: A Postscript: Talcott Parsons
11: The John Birch Society: Alan F. Westin
12: England and America: Climates of Tolerance and Intolerance: Seymour
Martin Lipset
13: The Sources of the "Radical Right": Seymour Martin Lipset
14: Three Decades of the Radical Right: Coughlinites, McCarthyites, and
Birchers: Seymour Martin Lipset
Afterword: From Class to Culture
Acknowledgments
Index