A Conspiratorial Life. Robert Welch, The John Birch Society, And The Revolution Of American Conservatism
Miller H. Edward
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition
Description: 456 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: "This biography of Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, documents how his idiosyncratic philosophizing infused right-wing politics in America. Edward H. Miller explores every aspect of Welch, detailing his youthful egotism; his innovations in candy-making; his mix of brilliance and incompetence; and the development of his raging political beliefs. The John Birch Society was long seen as occupying the farthest reaches of the political spectrum, blending paleo-conservatism, libertarianism, paranoia, and rabid anti-Communism. Miller demonstrates how the Society became central to Republican grassroots operations and how Welch became a guiding light of the right, on a par with William F. Buckley"--
ISBN: 9780226448862
(231399)
