Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century

The Resource Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century

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Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century

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the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century

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Daniel Oppenheimer

Language

eng

Summary

Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political figures whose journeys away from the left reshaped the contours of American politics in the twentieth century. By going deep into the minds of six apostates--Whittaker Chambers, James Burnham, Ronald Reagan, Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz, and Christopher Hitchens--Oppenheimer offers a history of the American left, and the right's reaction. Through the eyes of his six subjects, we see America grow, stumble, and forge ahead--from World War I up through the Great Depression and World War II, from the Red Scare up through the Civil Rights Movement, and from the birth of neoconservatism up through 9/11 and the dawn of the Iraq War. At its core, Exit Right is a book that asks profound questions about why and how we come to believe politically at all--on the left or the right. Each of these six lives challenges us to ask where our own beliefs come from, and what it might take to change them

Biography type

collective biography

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DLC

Dewey number

324.2092/2
B

Index

index present

LC call number

E747

LC item number

.O67 2016

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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