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1 online resource |
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Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; volume 39 |
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Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 39.
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| Contents |
From "Turn Texas loose" to the Tea Party: origins of the Texas Right / David O'Donald Cullen -- Texan by color: the racialization of the Lone Star state / Michael Phillips -- "The evils of socialism": the religious right in early twentieth-century Texas / Kyle G. Wilkison -- "He, being dead, yet speaketh": J. Frank Norris and the Texas religious right at midcentury / Samuel K. Tullock -- The far right in Texas politics during the Roosevelt era / Keith Volanto -- Establishing the Texas Right, 1940-1960 / George N. Green -- The paranoid style and its limits: the power, influence, and failure of the postwar Texas Right / Sean P. Cunningham -- Focus on the family: twentieth-century conservative Texas women and the Lone Star Right / Nancy E. Baker -- Texas tradition and the Right: continuity and change / Michael Lind |
| Summary |
In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right, even before the arrival of the New Deal. By demonstrating that Texas politics foreshadowed the partisan realignment of the erstwhile Solid South, the studies in this book challenge the traditional narrative that emphasizes the right-wing critique of modern America voiced by, among others, radical con |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Radicalism -- Texas -- History
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Conservatism -- Texas -- History
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Right-wing extremists -- Texas -- History
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Religious right -- Texas -- History
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Tea Party movement -- Texas -- History
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Social movements -- Texas -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Conservatism
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Politics and government
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Radicalism
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Religious right
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Right-wing extremists
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Social movements
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Tea Party movement
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Texas -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134280
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Texas -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134281
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Texas
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cullen, David O'Donald, 1951-
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Wilkison, Kyle Grant, 1960-
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| ISBN |
9781623491116 |
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1623491118 |
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1306407052 |
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9781306407052 |
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