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Rebels All A Short History Of The Conservative Mind In Postwar America Kevin Mattson

Name: Rebels All A Short History Of The Conservative Mind In Postwar America Kevin Mattson
SKU: BELL-44163466
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Rebels All A Short History Of The Conservative Mind In Postwar America Kevin Mattson instant download after payment.

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 20.79 MB

Pages: 171

Author: Kevin Mattson

ISBN: 9780813543437, 0813543436

Language: English

Year: 2008

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Rebels All A Short History Of The Conservative Mind In Postwar America Kevin Mattson by Kevin Mattson 9780813543437, 0813543436 instant download after payment.

Do you ever wonder why
conservative pundits drop the word “faggot” or talk about killing and
then Christianizing Muslims abroad? Do you wonder why the right’s
spokespeople seem so confrontational, rude, and over-the-top recently?
Does it seem strange that conservative books have such apocalyptic
titles? Do you marvel at why conservative writers trumpeted the “rebel”
qualities of George W. Bush just a few years back?
There is no doubt that the style of the political right today is tough, brash, and by many accounts, not very conservative sounding. After all, isn’t conservatism supposed
to be about maintaining standards, upholding civility, and frowning
upon rebellion? Historian Kevin Mattson explains the apparent
contradictions of the party in this fresh examination of the postwar
conservative mind. Examining a big cast of characters that includes
William F. Buckley, Whittaker Chambers, Norman Podhoretz, Irving
Kristol, Kevin Phillips, David Brooks, and others, Mattson shows how
right-wing intellectuals have always, but in different ways, played to
the populist and rowdy tendencies in America’s political culture. He
boldly compares the conservative intellectual movement to the radical
utopians among the New Left of the 1960s and he explains how
conservatism has ingested central features of American culture,
including a distrust of sophistication and intellectualism and a love of
popular culture, sensation, shock, and celebrity.
Both a work of history and political criticism, Rebels All!
shows how the conservative mind made itself appealing, but also points
to its endemic problems. Mattson’s conclusion outlines how a recast
liberalism should respond to the conservative ascendancy that has marked
our politics for the last thirty years.