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  • Takeover

    How the Left's Quest for Social Justice Corrupted Liberalism

    by Donald Critchlow, W.J. Rorabaugh ...
    "How did liberals get to be the way they are today?"That's the question many Americans are asking as they witness the efforts of the most left-wing president in American history. At last, historians Donald T. Critchlow and W. J. Rorabaugh supply the answer.As the authors show, it is a mistake to see the Obama administration's agenda as a single man's vision. Equally flawed, they reveal, is the now ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Conspiracies in America

    A Reader

    Edited by Donald T. Critchlow, John Korasick, Matthew C. Sherman ...
    Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among others, Masons, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, financiers, Communists, and internationalists. Although many conspiracy theories appear irrational, an exaggerated fear of a conspiracy sometimes proves to be well founded. This anthology provides students with ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Political History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • When Hollywood Was Right

    How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Coming together were stars such as John Wayne, Robert Taylor, George Murphy and many others, who joined studio heads Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Walt Disney and Jack ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Conservative Ascendancy

    How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Hailed as “perhaps the best scholarly overview of the conservative movement in print” (American Conservative), Donald Critchlow's The Conservative Ascendancy has depicted, as no other book has, the wild ride of the Republican Right. Newly updated and available for the first time in paperback, it continues to offer the best account of the conservative struggle to reverse the momentum of the New ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Future Right

    Forging a New Republican Majority

    by Donald Critchlow ...
    Contrary to those who argue that demographics are political destiny, social trends are transforming identity categories of race, gender, and youth - all of which provide rich opportunities for Republicans to create a new majority. To accomplish this, Republicans will need imagination and political acumen if they are to win over those constituencies that have become the base of the Democratic Party ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Republican Character

    From Nixon to Reagan

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Series series
    "Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making of politics, viewing its practitioners as self-serving and without principle or conviction.Because of these ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Revolutionary Monsters

    Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini.All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors—capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they replaced.Much has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to Crane Brinton ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Political Conspiracies in America

    A Reader

    Edited by Donald T. Critchlow, John Korasick, Matthew C. Sherman ...
    Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among others, Masons, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, financiers, Communists, and internationalists. Although many conspiracy theories appear irrational, an exaggerated fear of a conspiracy sometimes proves to be well founded. This anthology provides students with ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Republican Character

    From Nixon to Reagan

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    "Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making of politics, viewing its practitioners as self-serving and without principle or conviction.Because of these ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • In Defense of Populism

    Protest and American Democracy

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Contrary to warnings about the dangers of populism, Donald F. Critchlow argues that grassroots activism is essential to party renewal within a democratic system.Grassroots activism, presenting a cacophony of voices calling for reform of various sorts without programmatic coherence, is often derided as populist and distrusted by both political parties and voters. But according to Donald T. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • In Defense of Populism

    Protest and American Democracy

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Contrary to warnings about the dangers of populism, Donald F. Critchlow argues that grassroots activism is essential to party renewal within a democratic system.Grassroots activism, presenting a cacophony of voices calling for reform of various sorts without programmatic coherence, is often derided as populist and distrusted by both political parties and voters. But according to Donald T. ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD