Birchers How The John Birch Society Radicalized The American Right Matthew Dallek by Matthew Dallek 9781541673564, 1541673565, 2022049307 instant download after payment.

At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America & posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, & freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society’s extremism remade American conservatism. 

Most Birchers were white professionals who were radicalized as growing calls for racial & gender equality appeared to upend American life. Conservative leaders recognized that these affluent voters were needed to win elections, & for decades the GOP courted Birchers & their extremist successors. The far right steadily gained power, finally toppling the Republican establishment & electing Donald Trump. Birchers is a deeply researched & indispensable new account of the rise of extremism in the United States.

Matthew Dallek is a historian & professor of political management at George Washington University’s College of Professional Studies. The author of The Right Moment & Defenseless Under the Night, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, & other publications. He lives in Washington, DC.