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The conservatives : ideas and personalities throughout American history /

Allitt, Patrick.

The conservatives : ideas and personalities throughout American history / Patrick Allitt. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009. - ix, 325 p., 25 cm.

American Window Includes index.

Introduction -- The Federalists -- Southern conservatism -- Northern antebellum conservatism and the Whigs -- Conservatism and the Civil War -- Conservatism after the Civil War -- Conservatism in the 1920s and 1930s -- The new conservatism, 1945-1964 -- The movement gains allies, 1964-1980 -- The Reagan revolution and the climax of the Cold War -- Conservatives after the Cold War, 1989-2001 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

9780300118940 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2008042559


Conservatism--History.--United States


United States--Politics and government.

JC573.2.U6 / A425 2009

320.520973