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How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
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How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society’s extremism remade American conservatism. Most Birchers were white professionals who were radicalized as growing calls for racial and gender equality appeared to upend American life. Conservative leaders recognized that these affluent voters were needed to win elections, and for decades the GOP courted Birchers and their extremist successors. The far right steadily gained power, finally toppling the Republican establishment and electing Donald Trump.
Birchers is a deeply researched and indispensable new account of the rise of extremism in the United States.
©2023 Matthew Dallek (P)2023 Basic BooksLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party
- De: Geoffrey Kabaservice
- Narrado por: Michael Bulter Murray
- Duración: 21 h y 12 m
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The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mounted primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appeared to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise were dirty words in the Republican presidential debates. The GOP, it seemed, had suddenly become a party of ideological purity. Except this development is not new at all.
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Kabaservice doesn't make the case
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Wingnuts
- How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America
- De: John P. Avlon, Tina Brown - foreword
- Narrado por: John P. Avlon, Tina Brown (foreword)
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Whats a wingnut? A wingnut is someone on the far-right or far-left wing of the political spectrum professional partisans, unhinged activists, and paranoid conspiracy theorists. Barack Obama campaigned as an antidote to the politics of polarization, promising to transcend the old divides of left and right, black and white, red states and blue. But in the first year of his presidency, he is presiding over an eruption of hate and hyper-partisanship that threatens to mock the promise upon which he was elected.
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It Was All a Lie
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Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else.
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A party gone astray
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De: Stuart Stevens
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The Black Cabinet
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In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave of Black defectors from the Party of Lincoln, a group of African-American intellectuals - legal minds, social scientists, media folk - sought to get the community's needs on the table.
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Brilliant, important, and little known history
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De: Jill Watts
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Reaganland
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- De: Rick Perlstein
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- Duración: 45 h y 18 m
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Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga's final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford's defeat, too old to make another run.
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This Book is Censored by Audible
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De: Rick Perlstein
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The Corrosion of Conservatism
- Why I Left the Right
- De: Max Boot
- Narrado por: Max Boot
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Warning that the Trump presidency presages America’s decline, Max Boot, the political commentator, recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent. As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents an urgent defense of American democracy.
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Not an intellectual tour de force!
- De Wayne en 07-14-19
De: Max Boot
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Resistance
- How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump
- De: Jennifer Rubin
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
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In the tradition of Shattered and Game Change, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin provides an insider’s look at how women across the political spectrum carried a revolution to the ballot box and defeated Donald Trump, based on interviews with key figures such as Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Stacey Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, and many more.
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An excellent book
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De: Jennifer Rubin
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What Were We Thinking
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- De: Carlos Lozada
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It is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of books about his tenure and his time. Dissections of the white working class. Manifestos of political resistance. Works on identity, gender, and migration. Memoirs on race and protest. Revelations of White House mayhem. Warnings over the future of conservatism, progressivism, and of American democracy itself.
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Useful book
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De: Carlos Lozada
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Dangerous Charisma
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Offering an in-depth psychological and political portrait of what makes Donald Trump tick, Dangerous Charisma combines psychoanalysis with an investigation into the personality of the current American president. This narrative not only examines the life and psychology of Donald Trump but also provides an analysis of the charismatic psychological tie between Trump and his supporters. In this new book, the psychiatrist who once served under five American presidents applies his expertise to profiling the current resident in the White House with surprising and revelatory results.
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Must read book!!
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Fault Lines
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- De: Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
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If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: You might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the “Reagan Revolution” and the the rise of the New Right. How did the US become so divided? Fault Lines offers a richly told, wide-angle history view toward an answer.
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Good overview of the past 45 years
- De Adam Shields en 02-26-19
De: Kevin M. Kruse, y otros
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Four Threats
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- De: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
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In The Four Threats, Lieberman and Mettler explore five historical episodes when democracy in the United States was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound, even fatal, damage to the American democratic experiment, and on occasion antidemocratic forces have prevailed. From this history, four distinct characteristics of democratic disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power...have threatened the survival of the republic.
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Very informative
- De Angela Fobbs en 12-31-20
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The Post-American Presidency
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Widely popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times best-selling author Robert Spencer team up for this battle cry about the damage being done by the current administration's policies to the institution of the American presidency.
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The real truth behind the Obama administration
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The Shadow Party
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America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influential and powerful Americans secretly stirring up disunion and disloyalty in the shifting shadows of the Democratic Party. Radical infiltrators have been quietly transforming America's societal, cultural, and political institutions for more than a generation. Now, backed by George Soros, they are ready to make their move.
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Best introduction to the Democrat party in 2019
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De: David Horowitz, y otros
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Birchers
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Everything old is new again.
In this fairly exhaustive but accessible history, common themes that once coalesced around pro-slavery and anti-immigrant forces are shown as a through line leading to the founding of the JBS, and how that influence continues today.
Many recognizable ideas, even word for word arguments and slogans, that dot our current political media landscape are unpacked here from their genesis. Fascinating, if morbid.
Easy to understand, interesting in both tone and content, and well read, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.
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The Missing Link
I was in elementary school circa 1969, when a classmate, the son of a corporate CEO mocked me for not knowing about the John Birch Society. Obviously he learned about it at home, as we were merely 7 years old. That stuck in my mind, so I had to read this book. Well, it turns out there’s a big throughline from the JBS to all the other right wing extremists up to the Tea Party and Q-Anon. The parallels are too obvious to ignore. Toss in the rise of specialized right wing media and social media’s facilitation of connecting like-minded individuals and their obsession with conspiracies and rumors and you get our current political climate. And there’s no William F. Buckley to gatekeep or rein in or tamp it down. Read this book for a thorough history of how we got here. Oh my heavens. It is timely.
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- quaere
- 03-28-23
Fascinating
Knowing this history informs on the political environment today. Everything old is new again. Highly recommend
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- Janie Burns
- 06-03-23
The Progenitor of the MAGA Movement
I was somewhat familiar with the John Birch Society from the 60s but never thought of it as a subversive organization infiltrating the GOP with a goal of undermining democracy. I thought it died out in the 70s. This book describes in detail how it metastasized and spread throughout the Republican Party and evolved into the current-day MAGA insurrectionist movement. Truly fascinating.
The delivery is like listening for hours to a lecturer discussing an important but dry episode of history which at times made me want to skip a few chapters or even put the book down, but I’m glad I didn’t. I just hope the arc of Bircherism ends in 2024.
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- D. Littman
- 03-26-23
Excellent popular history
An excellent well-researched popular history of the John Birch Society & the far right "populism" of the 1950s and 1960s. Many resemblances between this stain on American history and earlier ones (e.g., the "No Nothing" Party of the 1850s, the KKK of the 1920s) and later/contemporary ones (QAnon). This strain of rightwing, paranoid has existed as an element of American politics throughout our history, usually repudiated by the mainstream parties (whether honestly or not). Today's paranoid/racist/anti-immigration & anti-semitic fringe has seemingly found a home in the contemporary Republican Party. An understanding of the boom & bust of the John Birch Society can help the reader understanding what is going on now.
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- Shirley
- 05-23-23
My father was a Bircher.
Well written and very well narrated, this history is poignant and extremely relevant to the challenges we currently face as a nation.
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- J. Harris
- 06-29-23
Good tie in to current politics
If you always wondered about what the John Birch Society was and who was John Birch this is the starting point. Prof Dallek demonstrates how it all ties into today..
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-15-23
Fallen connects the dots from the Birchers’ beginnings to the frightening radical right of today.
I liked the straightforward sequencing of changes in conservative Republican politics as it accommodated and absorbed JBS racism, nativism, and conspiracy theories.
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- Stefan Borst-Censullo
- 07-17-24
Well crafted but needed more research
Decent thesis but the author stretched the material to cover the modern era instead of focusing on the main era of the society’s influence
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- Jennifer Hagan
- 05-22-23
Really good insight
I enjoyed this and it was well researched. I’ve studied the birch society quite a bit and this all adds up. I admit the narrator was a little hard to stick with at times, made me want to fall asleep.
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