Few question the ?right turn? America took after 1966, when liberal political power began to wane. But if they did, No Right Turn suggests, they might discover that all was not really ?right? with the conservative golden age. A provocative overview of a half century of American politics, the book takes a hard look at the counterrevolutionary dreams of liberalism?s enemies?to overturn people?s reliance on expanding government, reverse the moral and sexual revolutions, and win the Culture War?and finds them largely unfulfilled. David Courtwright deftly profiles celebrated and controversial figures, from Clare Boothe Luce, Barry Goldwater, and the Kennedy brothers to Jerry Falwell, David Stockman, and Lee Atwater. He shows us Richard Nixon?s keen talent for turning popular anxieties about morality and federal meddling to Republican advantage?and his inability to translate this advantage...
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