New York State and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: Redrawing Party Lines

Recounts the shift towards conservatism in New York's Republican Party in the 1960s and 1970s.

From the early 1960s until 1980 New York's Conservative and Republican Parties battled on the editorial page, at the ballot box, and in the courts over the ideology of the GOP. New York State and the Rise of Modern Conservatism recounts the story of how New York, reputedly the most liberal of all states, played a critical role in conservatism's political ascendancy and in the redrawing, according t...