The right talk : how conservatives transformed the Great Society into the economic society / Mark A. Smith.
"Mark A. Smith analyzes a half century of speeches, campaign advertisements, party platforms, and intellectual writings, systematically showing how Republican politicians and conservative intellectuals increasingly gave economic justifications for policies they once defended through appeals to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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| Summary: | "Mark A. Smith analyzes a half century of speeches, campaign advertisements, party platforms, and intellectual writings, systematically showing how Republican politicians and conservative intellectuals increasingly gave economic justifications for policies they once defended through appeals to freedom. He explains how Democrats similarly conceived economic justifications for their own policies, but unlike Republicans they changed positions on issues rather than simply offering new arguments and thus helped push the national discourse inexorably to the right."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 267 p. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691130170 (cloth : alk. paper) 0691130175 (cloth : alk. paper) |