Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Studying the Role of Conservatives in American Political Development; Part I: The New Deal to the Great Society; 1 Environmental Policy from the New Deal to the Great Society: The Lagged Emergence of an Ideological Dividing Line; 2 Social Security from the New Deal to the Great Society: Expanding the Public Domain; 3 Education Policy from the New Deal to the Great Society: The Three Rs--Race, Religion, and Reds; Part II: The Great Society to 1980; 4 Environmental Policy from the Great Society to 1980: A Coalition Comes Unglued
Summary
This edited book is the first to offer an overview of the impact of conservatism on 20th century American political development locating its origins in the New Deal and then focusing on how conservatives acted within government once they began to achieve power in the late 1960s
