Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement, 1945

Conservatives in the United States were largely politically isolated in the wake of the depression and the New Deal. Bjerre-Poulsen (American Studies, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) describes how the conservative movement reacted to this isolation organizationally, establishing a loose network of national and local organizations designed to regain control of the Republican Party and use it as a tool to promote their ideological vision. The narrative proceeds from the 1940s to the wate...