About the Author

Barbara Epstein is Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism and Temperance in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica (1981).

Reviews

"Well written. . . . The use of oral history preserves individual stories about participation in the movement and adds conviction to the analysis. . . . Any political history of the Reagan era should rely on this book to counter the notion that Reaganism remained ideologically unchallenged throughout the 1980s."--Jonathan Soffer, "Oral History Review