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Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right Hardcover – April 16, 2024

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A provocative look at the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the end of the Cold War
 
Since 2016, many commentators have expressed shock at the so-called rise of the far right in America at the expense of “responsible” and “respectable” conservatism. But is the far right an aberration in conservative politics?
 
As David Austin Walsh shows, the mainstream conservative movement and the far right have been intertwined for nearly a century, and both were born out of a “right-wing popular front” linking racists, anti-Semites, and fascists in a broad coalition opposed to socialism, communism, and New Deal liberalism.

Far from being outliers in the broader conservative coalition, these extremist elements were foundational in the creation of a right‑wing political culture centered around shared political enemies, a penchant for conspiracy theories, and a desire to restore America to its “authentic” pre–New Deal values.
 
The popular front included Merwin Hart, a New York business lobbyist active in far-right circles who became a lobbyist for the Franco regime in Spain, the original “America First” movement, the movement to prevent Jewish immigration to the United States after World War II, the John Birch Society, the American Nazi Party, the George Wallace presidential campaign of 1968, the fight over the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Pat Buchanan’s support of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk during the Reagan Administration. And connecting this disparate coalition was William F. Buckley, Jr., the editor of National Review and America’s leading “responsible conservative.”
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“Excellent. . . . A fascinating re-description of the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the end of the Cold War.”—Know Your Enemy (podcast)

“Comprehensive and provocative.”—Jacob Heilbrunn, Washington Monthly

“This is going to be a book to reckon with and I think it will take its place as one of the most important studies that we have not just of modern conservatism but of twentieth-century American political culture.”—Lawrence B. Glickman, author of Free Enterprise

“A masterful unearthing of the deep connection between America’s Far right ‘lunatic fringe’ and ‘respectable conservatism,’ showing how they were brought together by anti-Black racism, anti-Semitism, hatred of labor unions, and opposition to the expansion of the welfare state. Walsh’s research shows that far from being a sudden turn in the age of Trump, this toxic partnership has been active in American politics since the 1930s.”—Hasia Diner, New York University

“Walsh digs deep into the archives to provide shrewd, fresh insights into one of the most pressing questions in modern American politics: how did a conservative movement that had supposedly ‘purged’ its extremist fringe give us Donald Trump and his epigones.”—Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976–1980

“For far too long historians neglected the homegrown tradition of American fascism, with its antisemitic, xenophobic, and white nationalist political ideals. With impeccable research and measured prose, Walsh unearths a twentieth-century history of conservatism tied to the extremes of far-right politics and to today’s surging MAGAism.”—Lila Corwin Berman, author of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion Dollar Institution

About the Author

David Austin Walsh is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and a College Fellow at the University of Virginia. He splits his time between New Haven, CT, and Charlottesville, VA.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (April 16, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300260970
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300260977
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.34 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9 inches
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LS1866
1.0 out of 5 stars Where was the copy-editor?
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2024
This book reads like someone took a badly written undergraduate term paper, extended it by 150 pages of the same, and submitted it to the printer without any edits. Contentwise it's just a recounting of various racist types on the far right. That could be interesting as a subject, but anyone who's studied the 20th century's politics already knows most of the events and people he summarizes.

More significant: the author of this one can't keep a timeline to save his life. He just jumps around all over the place, sometimes mid-paragraph to events that are years apart. It's as if a thought popped into his head about something he already wrote about so he felt the need to state it again for no particular reason. It disrupts the flow of the book, and if you did not already know the figures and events involved you'd think that the New Deal, the McCarthy hearings, and Pat Buchanan's 1992 campaign for president were all happening a few years apart.

The author also likes reintroduce the same characters who he already spent several pages detailing 3 chapters ago, yet he approaches it as if it's the first time the reader ever saw that name. And sometimes his timeline goes in the other direction, e.g. he will be talking about something in 1953 and just randomly jump forward to the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville or January 6th as if to make some political point. It makes the narrative nearly unreadable, even when parts of the content could be interesting. Note that I say "could" because the disorganization of the story, the repetitiveness, and the smug tone are so off-putting that the author manages to make an interesting subject into a chore to read.
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Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written, well researched fascinating read
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2024
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Joseph A Osha
1.0 out of 5 stars An oddly disorganized piece of work - was no editor involved?
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2024
One gets the sense, reading this book, that the author's attempt to link the far right and mainstream conservatism in the US was to have been supported by detailed historical evidence. And who knows, maybe that evidence actually exists.

But you'll have a heck of a time figuring that out, or evaluating the merit of the author's claims. The book simply hops from idea to idea, and from one time frame to another, with no apparent structure. It's almost as if the author pounded this book out in his basement, tossing ideas in as they appeared to him, and then just handed it to the publisher for printing.

And yes, ok, I'm a little more on the conservative end of the spectrum, but if you're a liberal reader and you're looking for insights into US conservatism written by a liberal you can do much better than this. Rick Perlstein, Corey Rubin - there's plenty of quality out there. This book is too undisciplined to be of any real use.
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JRFarrin
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for this Present Moment
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2024
Fantastic book. An excellent look into the modern American Right.
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