America's Right Turn : From Nixon to Clinton

by Berman, William C.; Kutler, Stanley I.

• ISBN13: 9780801858727
• ISBN10: 0801858720
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-14
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

In America's Right Turn historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. Berman demonstrates the key roles played by conservative populism and the conservative backlash to the rights revolution in the collapse of Democratic hegemony. But most importantly, he shows how conservative politics became allied with conservative economics -- an alliance forged with singular success during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In this new edition, Berman discusses the initial failure of the Clinton administration to establish a viable political alternative to the GOP. Berman also shows how Clinton won reelection in l996 by moving steadily to the center, even to the extent of co-opting the Republican agenda, while defending a number of key Democratic programs.

Author Biography

William C. Berman is professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Politics of Culture and Class, 1964-1974	p. 5
The Conservative Upsurge, 1974-1976	p. 21
Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of Liberalism	p. 37
The Triumph of Conservatism, 1980	p. 60
The Reagan Revolution	p. 85
Conservatism in Decline, 1985-1992	p. 119
The Clinton Center	p. 164
Conclusion	p. 188
Bibliographical Essay	p. 193
Index	p. 211
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