Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon: Rethinking the Rise of the Right

Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon explores the relationship between postwar conservatives and the president from 1968 to 1974. Seemingly casting those years out of their history, conservatives have never fully explored how Richard Nixon affected their movement. They fail to realize the extent his presidency helped refocus their fight against liberalism and communism. Mergel uses the Nixon years as a window into the Right s effort to turn ideology into successful politics. It combines an assessment of Nixon s presidency through the eyes of conservative intellectuals with an attempt to understand what the Right gained from its experience with Nixon.

Author: S. Mergel
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/29/2010
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230619944

About the Author
SARAH KATHERINE MERGEL is Assistant Professor of History at Dalton State College, USA.