Table of Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Part One Organizational Currents, Following the Threads, The Personal Is Political: The Role of Cultural Projects in the Mobilization of the Christian Right, Inventing an American Conservatism: The Neoconservative Episode, Business Conflict and Right-Wing Movements, Part Two Ideological and Policy Currents, Kitchen Table Backlash: The Antifeminist Women's Movement, Fulfilling Fears and Fantasies: The Role of Welfare in Right-Wing Social Thought and Strategy, Why Did Armey Apologize? Hegemony, Homophobia, and the Religious Right, The Color of America's Culture Wars, The Military-Industrial Complex and U.S. Foreign Policy: Institutionalizing the New Right Agenda in the Post-Cold War Period, The New Right's Economics: A Diagnosis and Counterattack, Mastering the New Political Arithmetic: Volatile Voters, Declining Living Standards, and Non-College-Educated Whites, Notes on the Editor and Contributors, Index

About the Author

Amy E. Ansell is assistant professor and associate dean for International Programs at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Her other forthcoming book is New Right, New Racism: Race and Reaction in the United States.