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"Rembering The Tradition." Review Of Brion Mcclanahan And Clyde Wilson’S Forgotten Conservatives In American History (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 2012)., Allen P. Mendenhall
"Rembering The Tradition." Review Of Brion Mcclanahan And Clyde Wilson’S Forgotten Conservatives In American History (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 2012)., Allen P. Mendenhall
Allen Mendenhall
Review of Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson’s Forgotten Conservatives in American History (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 2012).
America Reborn? Conservatives, Liberals, And American Political Culture Since 1945, Nick Salvatore
America Reborn? Conservatives, Liberals, And American Political Culture Since 1945, Nick Salvatore
Nick Salvatore
[Excerpt] From the perspective of the early twenty‑first century, we can chide the good professor for not carefully considering the consequences of what he wished for half a century ago. For it is clear that the force of this conservative movement in America was in fact “stronger than most of us [knew]” or could have imagined in 1950, or, indeed, in 1968. This conservative “impulse”, those “irritable mental gestures”, has largely restructured American political thinking with a force and popular approval that remains stunning to consider. The growth of the conservative movement since 1945 was also accompanied by the slow …
Behind The Rhetoric, Rowan Cahill
Behind The Rhetoric, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
A contemporary critical account of changes taking place in the NSW state education system in the late 1990s-2001 under the leadership of Dr. Ken Boston, Director-General of Education and Training in NSW. The author argues that Boston's 'devolution' rhetoric masks a determined conservative and Rightist push to politically and ideologically centralise the education system and in the process emasculate teacher initiative, imagination, and enterprise.