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==Summary==
 
American conservatism began to get sustained attention from academic historians after Alan Brinkley's 1994 article "the Problem of American Conservatism." Brinkley argued that since historians were generally unsympathetic to conservatism, they tended to ignore conservative movements and thinkers, characterizing conservatives as reactionaries on the wrong side of a progressive historical narrative. Brinkley's article inspired a generation of historians to take conservatism seriously. Zelizer (2010) is a review essay of work inspired by Brikley's article. Kazin's (1992) review article shows that serious study of U.S. conservatism predates Brinkley's article.
 
Genovese (1932-2012) a historian of the American South and American slavery, was best known for ''Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made'' (1974), which won the Bancroft Prize in 1975. Originally a Marxist who applied Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony to slavery, Genovese became a conservative while researching 'The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism' (1994), included in this bibliography. In ''The Southern Tradition,'' Genovese examines the Southern agrarians who he came to admire. Per Wikipedia on August 1, 2017, "The Southern Agrarians, [Genovese] noted, also posed a challenge to modern American conservatives who have a mistaken belief in market capitalism's compatibility with traditional social values and family structures. Genovese agreed with the Agrarians in concluding that capitalism destroyed those institutions."
 
Hofstader (1964) is a classic examination of fringe groups and conspiracy theories that uses the example of 19th century groups opposed to changes in monetary policy. Hofstadter was inspired by Goldwater's selection as the Republican presidential candidate in 1964.
 
Himmelstein (1992) and Schoenwald (2001) are both political histories of mid to late 20th-century American conservatism. Farmer (2005) takes this back to the Puritans. Farber (2010) prematurely(?) sees American conservatism as in decline. Lowndes (2008) argues that modern American conservatism grow out of an alliance between northern conservatives and southern segregationists.
 
Nash (2017) is a Heritage Foundation report about the future of American conservatism. I may move this piece to be with Brooks on the free enterprise page. The author argues that conservatives need to communicate in language that connects with ordinary Americans.
 
McGirr (2015) and Nickerson (2009) are a social histories of mid 20th-century conservatism in southern California. Williamson, Skopal, and Coggin (2011) is a sociological study of the emergence of the tea Party with participant observer research in Massachusetts.
 
James W. Fitfield, Jr. was a mid century Congregationalist minister who "set about convincing America’s Protestant clergy that America was a Christian nation in which government must be kept from interfering with the expression of God’s will in market economics" Stewart (2017). Fitfield's legacy is central to Kevin M. Kruse's "One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" (2015). Kruse, a historian of the American South at Princeton University, argues that the idea of the United States as a christian nation grew out of opposition to the New Deal 'when Corporate leaders allied with conservative clergyman [like Fitfield] to promote 'Christian libertarianism' (Kerstetter 2016). Kruse has previously written a prizewinning history of desegregation in Atlanta.
 
One Nation under God has been positively reviewed, although reviewers are not convinced that corporations played a significant role in promoting Christian libertarianism. The positive reviews included here include Hart (2015), written by a professor at Hillsdale College, published in the Wall Street Journal.
 
Toy (1970) is a history of Fitfield's spiritual mobilization movement. Harvey (1971) discusses the tensions between Fitfield's congregation and its parent denomination. Haddington (2010) and Harvey (1970) in this subsection are from publications Rice does not subscribe to.
 
==History of American Conservatism==
 
'''Zelizer, Julian E. 2010. “Reflections: Rethinking the History of American Conservatism.” Reviews in American History 38 (2): 367–92. doi:10.1353/rah.0.0217.'''
 
@article{zelizer_reflections:_2010,
issn = {1080-6628},
shorttitle = {Reflections},
url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/382920},
doi = {10.1353/rah.0.0217},
abstract = {In 1994, the Columbia historian Alan Brinkley stimulated an intense debate within the
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}
 
'''Brinkley, Alan. 1994. “The Problem of American Conservatism.” The American Historical Review 99 (2): 409–29. doi:10.2307/2167281.'''
 
''This article led a generation of historians to seriously examine American conservatism.''
@article{brinkley_problem_1994,
volume = {99},
issn = {0002-8762},
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2167281},
doi = {10.2307/2167281},
abstract = {IT WILL NOT, I SUSPECT, BE A VERY CONTROVERSIAL CLAIM to say that twentieth-
pages = {409--429}
}
 
'''Farber, David. 2010. The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History. Princeton University Press.'''
@book{farber_rise_2010,
keywords = {History / Modern / 20th Century, History / United States / 20th Century, Political Science / History \& Theory, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism \& Liberalism}
}
 
'''Himmelstein, Jerome L. 1992. To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism. University of California Press.'''
@book{himmelstein_right:_1992,
keywords = {Political Science / General, Political Science / Political Process / General, Political Science / Public Policy / General, Social Science / Sociology / General}
}
 
'''Genovese, Eugene D. 1994. The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism. Harvard University Press.'''
 
''Genovese is a former Marxist who became a conservative.''
@book{genovese_southern_1994,
keywords = {History / General, History / United States / General, Philosophy / Ethics \& Moral Philosophy, Political Science / Political Process / General}
}
 
'''Farmer, Brian R. 2005. American Conservatism: History, Theory and Practice. Cambridge Scholars Press.'''
@book{farmer_american_2005,
keywords = {Political Science / General}
}
 
'''Schoenwald, Jonathan. 2001. A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism. Oxford University Press.'''
@book{schoenwald_time_2001,
keywords = {History / United States / 20th Century, Political Science / History \& Theory, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism \& Liberalism}
}
 
'''Lowndes, Joseph E. 2008. From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism. Yale University Press.'''
@book{lowndes_new_2008,
keywords = {History / United States / 20th Century, Political Science / American Government / General, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism \& Liberalism, Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties, Social Science / Discrimination \& Race Relations}
}
 
'''Williamson, Vanessa, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin. 2011. “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.” Perspectives on Politics 9 (1): 25–43. doi:10.1017/S153759271000407X.
'''
@article{williamson_tea_2011,
volume = {9},
issn = {1541-0986, 1537-5927},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/tea-party-and-the-remaking-of-republican-conservatism/BDF68005B52758A48F7EC07086C3788C},
doi = {10.1017/S153759271000407X},
abstract = {In the aftermath of a potentially demoralizing 2008 electoral defeat, when the Republican Party seemed widely discredited, the emergence of the Tea Party provided conservative activists with a new identity funded by Republican business elites and reinforced by a network of conservative media sources. Untethered from recent GOP baggage and policy specifics, the Tea Party energized disgruntled white middle-class conservatives and garnered widespread attention, despite stagnant or declining favorability ratings among the general public. As participant observation and interviews with Massachusetts activists reveal, Tea Partiers are not monolithically hostile toward government; they distinguish between programs perceived as going to hard-working contributors to US society like themselves and “handouts” perceived as going to unworthy or freeloading people. During 2010, Tea Party activism reshaped many GOP primaries and enhanced voter turnout, but achieved a mixed record in the November general election. Activism may well continue to influence dynamics in Congress and GOP presidential primaries. Even if the Tea Party eventually subsides, it has undercut Obama's presidency, revitalized conservatism, and pulled the national Republican Party toward the far right.},
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}
 
'''Nash, George. 2017. “Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism.” The Heritage Foundation. Accessed July 20.'''
@misc{nash_reappraising_nodate,
title = {Reappraising the {Right}: {The} {Past} and {Future} of {American} {Conservatism}},
shorttitle = {Reappraising the {Right}},
url = {/political-process/report/reappraising-the-right-the-past-and-future-american-conservatism},
abstract = {Abstract: What do conservatives want? To be free, to live virtuous and productive lives, to be secure from threats beyond and within our borders, and to live in a society that sustains and encourages these aspirations: freedom, virtue, safety--goals reflected in the libertarian, traditionalist, and national security dimensions of the conservative movement and coalition. But to achieve these perennial goals, conservatives must communicate in language that connects with the great majority of the American people in all stations of life.},
urldate = {2017-07-20},
file = {Snapshot:files/137/reappraising-the-right-the-past-and-future-american-conservatism.html:text/html}
}
 
'''Kazin, Michael. 1992. “The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism in the Twentieth Century.” Edited by Leonard J. Moore, Kathleen M. Blee, Jerome L. Himmelstein, Ronald P. Formisano, and Rebecca E. Klatch. The American Historical Review 97 (1): 136–55. doi:10.2307/2164542.'''
 
''Review article''
@article{kazin_grass-roots_1992,
issn = {0002-8762},
shorttitle = {The {Grass}-{Roots} {Right}},
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2164542},
doi = {10.2307/2164542},
abstract = {HISTORIANS, LIKE MOST PEOPLE, ARE RELUCTANT TO SYMPATHIZE with people
pages = {136--155}
}
 
'''McGirr, Lisa. 2015. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton University Press.
'''
@book{mcgirr_suburban_2015,
keywords = {History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History / Modern / 20th Century, History / United States / 20th Century, Political Science / General, Political Science / History \& Theory}
}
 
'''Hofstadter, Richard. 2012. The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.'''
 
''Citation is reprint of 1964 classic.''
@book{hofstadter_paranoid_2012,
}
'''Nickerson, Michelle. 2009. “Politically Desperate Housewives: Women and Conservatism in Postwar Los Angeles.” California History 86 (3): 4–67. doi:10.2307/40495217.'''
 
@article{nickerson_politically_2009,
title = {Politically {Desperate} {Housewives}: {Women} and {Conservatism} in {Postwar} {Los} {Angeles}},
volume = {86},
issn = {0162-2897},
shorttitle = {Politically {Desperate} {Housewives}},
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40495217 },
doi = {10.2307/40495217},
number = {3},
urldate = {2017-07-31},
journal = {California History},
author = {Nickerson, Michelle},
year = {2009},
pages = {4--67}
}
==James W. Fitfield, Jr.==
 
'''Stewart, Katherine. 2017. “Opinion | What the ‘Government Schools’ Critics Really Mean.” The New York Times, July 31, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/opinion/donald-trump-school-choice-criticism.html.'''
 
''This op ed led me to research Fitfield.''
@article{stewart_opinion_2017,
title = {Opinion {\textbar} {What} the ‘{Government} {Schools}’ {Critics} {Really} {Mean}},
issn = {0362-4331},
url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/opinion/donald-trump-school-choice-criticism.html},
abstract = {The roots of the phrase lie not in libertarian economics but in Confederate rebellion.},
language = {en-US},
file = {Snapshot:files/173/donald-trump-school-choice-criticism.html:text/html}
}
 
 
'''Toy, Eckard V. 1970. “Spiritual Mobilization: The Failure of an Ultraconservative Ideal in the 1950’ S.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly 61 (2): 77–86.
'''
@article{toy_spiritual_1970,
issn = {0030-8803},
shorttitle = {Spiritual {Mobilization}},
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40488759},
number = {2},
urldate = {2017-07-31},
pages = {77--86}
}
 
'''Haddigan, Lee. 2010. “The Importance of Christian Thought for the American Libertarian Movement: Christian Libertarianism, 1950-71.” Libertarian Papers 2: 1.'''
@article{haddigan_importance_2010,
volume = {2},
shorttitle = {The {Importance} of {Christian} {Thought} for the {American} {Libertarian} {Movement}},
url = {http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/libpa2&id=219&div=&collection=},
journal = {Libertarian Papers},
author = {Haddigan, Lee},
}
@article{ferre_one_2016'''HARVEY, title = {One {Nation} under {God}: {How} {Corporate} {America} {Invented} {Christian} {America}}, volume = {41}, issn = {0094-7679}, shorttitle = {One {Nation} under {God}}, url = {https://wwwCHARLES E.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-3955648731/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented}, abstract = {Kruse, Kevin M1971. One Nation under God How Corporate America Invented Christian America“Dr. New YorkFifield of Los Angeles’ First Congregational Church Against the Ecumenical Movement.” Southern California Quarterly 53 (1): 67–82.doi:10.}, language = {eng}, number = {4}, urldate = {2017-07-31}, journal = {Journalism History}, author = {Ferré, John P.}, month = jan, year = {2016}, pages = {233}, file = {Snapshot:files2307/187/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented41170332.html:text/html}}'''
@article{harvey_dr._1971,
volume = {53},
issn = {0038-3929},
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/41170332},
doi = {10.2307/41170332},
number = {1},
pages = {67--82}
}
 
'''Harvey, Charles E. 1970. “Congregationalism on Trial, 1949-1950: An Account of the Cadman Case.” Journal of Church and State 12: 255.
'''
@article{harvey_congregationalism_1970,
volume = {12},
shorttitle = {Congregationalism on {Trial}, 1949-1950},
url = {http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jchs12&id=263&div=&collection=},
journal = {Journal of Church and State},
author = {Harvey, Charles E.},
file = {Congregationalism on Trial, 1949-1950\: An Account of the Cadman Case 12 Journal of Church and State 1970:files/191/LandingPage.html:text/html}
}
 
'''Kruse, Kevin. 2016. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Basic Books.'''
 
@book{kruse_one_2016,
title = {One {Nation} {Under} {God}: {How} {Corporate} {America} {Invented} {Christian} {America}},
isbn = {978-0-465-09741-8},
shorttitle = {One {Nation} {Under} {God}},
abstract = {We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.To fight the “slavery” of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for “freedom under God” that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and made “In God We Trust” the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was “one nation under God.”Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.},
language = {en},
publisher = {Basic Books},
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year = {2016},
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keywords = {History / United States / 20th Century, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism \& Liberalism, Religion / Religion, Politics \& State}
}
 
==Book reviews of One Nation Under God & Interview with Kruse==
 
 
'''Ferré, John P. 2016. “One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America.” Journalism History 41 (4): 233.'''
 
@article{ferre_one_2016,
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}
 
'''Kazin, Michael. 2015. “‘One Nation Under God,’ by Kevin M. Kruse.” The New York Times, May 15, sec. Sunday Book Review. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/books/review/one-nation-under-god-by-kevin-m-kruse.html.'''
 
@article{kazin_one_2015,
chapter = {Sunday Book Review},
title = {‘{One} {Nation} {Under} {God},’ by {Kevin} {M}. {Kruse}},
issn = {0362-4331},
url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/books/review/one-nation-under-god-by-kevin-m-kruse.html },
abstract = {A historian considers how and why Americans make such a conspicuous display of their faith.},
language = {en-US},
urldate = {2017-08-03},
journal = {The New York Times},
author = {Kazin, Michael},
month = may,
year = {2015},
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file = {Snapshot:files/207/one-nation-under-god-by-kevin-m-kruse.html:text/html}
}
 
'''Hart, D. G. 2015. “The World Ike Wrought.” Wall Street Journal, June 9, sec. Arts. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-ike-wrought-1433891576.'''
 
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title = {The {World} {Ike} {Wrought}},
issn = {0099-9660},
url = {http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-ike-wrought-1433891576 },
abstract = {D.G. Hart reviews “One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America” by Kevin M. Kruse.},
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'''“How ‘One Nation’ Didn’t Become ‘Under God’ Until The ’50s Religious Revival.” 2017. NPR.org. Accessed August 3. http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/396365659/how-one-nation-didnt-become-under-god-until-the-50s-religious-revival.'''
 
@misc{noauthor_how_nodate,
title = {How '{One} {Nation}' {Didn}'t {Become} '{Under} {God}' {Until} {The} '50s {Religious} {Revival}},
url = {http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/396365659/how-one-nation-didnt-become-under-god-until-the-50s-religious-revival },
abstract = {Kevin Kruse's book looks at how industrialists in the '30s and '40s recruited clergy to preach free enterprise. And under the Eisenhower administration, Christianity and capitalism moved center stage.},
urldate = {2017-08-03},
journal = {NPR.org},
file = {Snapshot:files/211/how-one-nation-didnt-become-under-god-until-the-50s-religious-revival.html:text/html }
}
 
 
'''Kerstetter, Todd M. 2016. “<italic>One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America</Italic> by Kevin M. Kruse (Review).” Journal of Southern History 82 (3): 738–39. doi:10.1353/soh.2016.0242.'''
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shorttitle = {{\textless}italic{\textgreater}{One} {Nation} {Under} {God}},
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year = {2016},
pages = {738--739},
file = {Full Text PDF:files/193/Kerstetter - 2016 - italicOne Nation Under God How Corporate Americ.pdf:application/pdf}} @article{nickerson_politically_2009, title = {Politically {Desperate} {Housewives}: {Women} and {Conservatism} in {Postwar} {Los} {Angeles}}, volume = {86}, issn = {0162-2897}, shorttitle = {Politically {Desperate} {Housewives}}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40495217}, doi = {10.2307/40495217}, number = {3}, urldate = {2017-07-31}, journal = {California History}, author = {Nickerson, Michelle}, year = {2009}, pages = {4--67}
}

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