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Leo Ribuffo + Alan Brinkley

are historians that argue that characters from early eras dismissed as crackpots (KKK, Huey Long, etc) offered a vision of free individuals, minimal government and autonomous local communities.

Thomas and Mary Edsall (Chain Reaction)

outline how politicians turned anger into race-based governmental activism into a mandate for tax cutting + government shrinking.

Ron Formisano (Boston Against Busing)

Said class tensions and economic insecurity were the heart of his explanation for the battle over busing.

Kim Phillips Fein (Invisible Hands)

outlined role of conservative businessman in forging anti labor promarket ideology.

Rick Perlstein (Before the Storm) + Jonathan Schoewald (A time for choosing)

unearthed the deliberate conservative movement making on the 1960s

Lisa McGirr’s (Suburban Warriors)

focused on middle class communities that were involved with Goldwater campaigns.

Thomas Sugrue, Matthew Lassiter, Lizabeth Cohen, Kevin Kruse:

Shown suburban landscape built by New Deal + Cold War era 

Juidith Stein by Bruce Schulman, Jefferson Cowie, and Laura Kalman

detailed 1970s activists took advantage of stagflation, watergate era disillusionment. 

Donald Critchlow, Darren Dochuk, Bethany Moreton, and Daniel K.Williams

scholars have shown that this latter cultural element of the conservative mobilization had origins dating to the midcentury