Right Moves - The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945 Stahl Jason Paperback / softback
Right Moves - The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945 Stahl Jason Paperback / softback From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role…
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Right Moves - The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945 Stahl Jason Paperback / softback
From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism. Yet, in spite of the formative influence these institutions have had on the media and public opinion, little has been written about their history. Positioning themselves against the alleged liberal bias of the media, academia, and the federal bureaucracy, conservative think tanks gained the attention of politicians and the public alike and were instrumental in promulgating conservative ideas.
Here, Jason Stahl offers the first sustained investigation of the rise and historical development of the conservative think tank as a source of political and cultural power in the United States.What we now know as conservative think tanks--research and public-relations institutions populated by conservative intellectuals--emerged in the postwar period as places for