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The Texas Right : the radical roots of Lone Star conservatism / edited by David O'Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 39.
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest ; Number 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radicalism--Texas--History.
- Radicalism.
- Conservatism--Texas--History.
- Conservatism.
- Right-wing extremists--Texas--History.
- Right-wing extremists.
- Religious right--Texas--History.
- Religious right.
- Tea Party movement--Texas--History.
- Tea Party movement.
- Texas--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Texas.
- Texas--Politics and government--1951-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right, even before the arrival of the New Deal.By demonstrating that Texas politics foreshadowed the partisan realignment of the erstwhile Solid South, the studies in this book challenge the traditional narrative that emphasizes the right-wing critique of modern America voiced by, a
- Contents:
- From "Turn Texas loose" to the Tea Party: origins of the Texas Right / David O'Donald Cullen
- Texan by color: the racialization of the Lone Star state / Michael Phillips
- "The evils of socialism": the religious right in early twentieth-century Texas / Kyle G. Wilkison
- "He, being dead, yet speaketh": J. Frank Norris and the Texas religious right at midcentury / Samuel K. Tullock
- The far right in Texas politics during the Roosevelt era / Keith Volanto
- Establishing the Texas Right, 1940-1960 / George N. Green
- The paranoid style and its limits: the power, influence, and failure of the postwar Texas Right / Sean P. Cunningham
- Focus on the family: twentieth-century conservative Texas women and the Lone Star Right / Nancy E. Baker
- Texas tradition and the Right: continuity and change / Michael Lind.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62349-111-8
- OCLC:
- 869736210
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