Invisible Hands Cl

by Phillips-Fein,Kim

• ISBN13: 9780393059304
• ISBN10: 0393059308
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-05
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America--and their profit margins--from socialism and the "nanny state." Long before the "culture wars" usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, these driven individuals funded think tanks, fought labor unions, and formed organizations to market their views. These nearly unknown, larger-than-life, and sometimes eccentric personalities--such as GE's zealous, silver-tongued Lemuel Ricketts Boulware and the self-described "revolutionary" Jasper Crane of DuPont--make for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes view of American history.The winner of a prestigious academic award for her original research on this book, Kim Phillips-Fein is already being heralded as an important new young American historian. Her meticulous research and narrative gifts reveal the dramatic story of a pragmatic, step-by-step, check-by-check campaign to promote an ideological revolution--one that ultimately helped propel conservative ideas to electoral triumph.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Paradise Lost	p. 3
Down from the Mountaintop	p. 26
Changing the Climate	p. 53
Cultural Politics: Churches, Radio Stations, and Magazines	p. 68
How to Break a Union	p. 87
Suburban Cowboy	p. 115
The Attack on the Free Enterprise System	p. 150
Turning the Tide	p. 166
Building the "Business Activist Movement"	p. 185
Making the Moral Majority	p. 213
The Market Triumphant	p. 236
Epilogue	p. 263
Acknowledgments	p. 270
Notes	p. 274
Bibliographic Essay and Note on Sources	p. 321
Selected Bibliography	p. 332
Index	p. 341
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