TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bell,Daniel
TI  - The Radical Right: The New American Right, expanded and updated 
AV  - E835 .B4
PY  - 1964///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Anchor
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1953-1961
N1  - Interpretations of American politics, by D. Bell.--The pseudo-conservative revolt, by R. Hofstadter.--The intellectuals and the discontented classes, by D. Riesman and N. Glazer.--The revolt against the elite, by P. Viereck.--Social strains in America, by T. Parsons.--The polls on communism and conformity, by N. Glazer and S.M. Lipset.--The sources of the "radical right," by S.M. Lipset.--Index
N2  - Who are the Radical Right and why do extreme rightest movements keep recurring in mid-twentieth -century America? These are the themes explored in The Radical Right by a group of distinguished American historians, sociologists, and political scientists. They find that the roots of the radical right go back to the fundamentalist attacks on science and the patriotic vigilantism of he 1920s, that its members are persons who do not understand social change and seek to hold fast to certitudes that no longer exist, that the extreme right's basic fear is not Communism, but modernity - which is why it seeks to equate liberalism with Communism, and that the social sources of right-wing support are no longer to be found in the bold economic interest group conflicts which have characterized different periods in American life, but in the idea of status concerns and status politics which shapes political attitudes today. Six of the fourteen essays first appeared in The New American Right in 1955. For this volume each of the six authors has added a new chapter applying his analytical scheme to the politics of the 1960s. In addition there is a study of the John Birch Society by Alan F. Westin and a comparative analysis of the political climates in Britain and the United States by Herbert H. Hyma
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