conservatism

"... argues that the story of Christian America begins with the Great Depression, when a coalition of businessmen and religious leaders united in opposition to the New Deal. As Kruse shows, corporations from General Motors and Kraft Foods to J.C. Penney and Hilton Hotels poured money into the coffers of conservative religious leaders, who in turn used those funds to attack FDR's New Deal administration as a program of 'pagan statism' that perverted the central tenet of Christianity: the salvation of the individual"--Provided by publisher.

Surveys fifty individuals and ten political movements representing some of history’s most critical schools of thought.

Republican Senator Jesse Helms recounts the events that have shaped his life and political views, discussing his childhood, relationship with his parents, career in journalism, early political career, election to the Senate, and other related topics.

The emergence of a neotraditionalist order -- Mother Luisa's canonization and the sanctification of neotraditionalism -- The urban cloister : religious and ethnic identity in Los Angeles -- Underground Carmelites : Catholic identity in the Arizona/Sonora borderlands -- Betwixt and between : Catholic identity and the reconstruction of ethnic identity in Miami -- Gone but not forgotten : the Carmelites in postindustrial Cleveland.

Dionne brilliantly pinpoints the four crises shaking American politics and how they affect people's jobs, living standards, family lives, and attitudes toward the future. In a new preface and afterward, Dionne shows how a progressive, reform-minded political movement is the answer to our prevailing discontent.

Traces the course of conservatism from 1945 to the present.

A profile of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher based on archival documents, biographies, and interviews with people who knew her, discussing how she was able to reverse the socialist agenda in Great Britain and set the country on the path to power, and looking at her legacy for Britain and the world.