A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism

"A cleverly written, finely textured, and badly needed study of a pivotal and too-often marginalized figure in the development of the modern American Right." —The Journal of Southern History

Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)—founder of the John Birch Society—is easily one of the most significant architects of our current political moment. In A Conspiratorial Life, the first full-scale biography of Welch, Edward H. Miller delves deep into the life of an overlooked fi...