03938cam a2200529 i 4500 23277868 BJBSDDR 20250528154135.0 ta 230815s2024 ctu b 001 0 eng d 2023944621 9780300260977 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0300260970 (hardcover : alk. paper) (OCoLC)on1404819634 YDX eng rda YDX YUS OCLCO OWU I3U TOH GSU CTU TXM QX7 DLC eng lccopycat n-us--- JC 573.2 W224t 2024 320.520973 Walsh, David Austin 41688 Taking America back : the conservative movement and the far right / David Austin Walsh. Conservative movement and the far right New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2024 xii, 303 pages ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-287) and index. The Right-Wing Popular Front, 1933-53. "It is time to brush aside this word 'democracy'" -- "The super superpatriotic type" : America First and the far right -- The role of the crackpot : the far right after World War II -- McCarthyism and the far right -- The Purge That Wasn't, 1953-91. Magazine wars -- The John Birch Society and the second Brown Scare -- The birth of the White Power Movement -- Who owns conservatism?. "Since 2016, many commentators have expressed shock at the so-called rise of the far right in America at the expense of "responsible" and "respectable" conservatism. But is the far right an aberration in conservative politics? As David Austin Walsh shows, the mainstream conservative movement and the far right have been intertwined for nearly a century, and both were born out of a "right-wing popular front" linking racists, anti-Semites, and fascists in a broad coalition opposed to socialism, communism, and New Deal liberalism. Far from being outliers in the broader conservative coalition, these extremist elements were foundational in the creation of a right-wing political culture centered around shared political enemies, a penchant for conspiracy theories, and a desire to restore America to its "authentic" pre-New Deal values. The popular front included Merwin Hart, a New York business lobbyist active in far-right circles who became a lobbyist for the Franco regime in Spain, the original "America First" movement, the movement to prevent Jewish immigration to the United States after World War II, the John Birch Society, the American Nazi Party, the George Wallace presidential campaign of 1968, the fight over the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Pat Buchanan's support of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk during the Reagan Administration. And connecting this disparate coalition was William F. Buckley, Jr., the editor of National Review and America's leading "responsible conservative""--Publisher's website. Conservatism United States. Conservadurismo Estados Unidos 7982 Right-wing extremists United States. Extremistas de derecha Estados Unidos 7685 Right and left (Political science) United States. Derecha e izquierda (Ciencias políticas) Estados Unidos 20290 Conservatisme États-Unis. Extrémistes de droite États-Unis. United States Politics and government 20th century. Estados Unidos Política y gobierno Siglo XX 2191 7 cbc copycat 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 123214 123214 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-04-24 0 JC 573.2 W224t 2024 00000190371 2025-04-24 00:00:00 1 2025-04-24 BK