About the Author

Sara Diamond, PhD, a leading authority on right-wing movements in the United States, holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California. She is the author of Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States; Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right; and Facing the Wrath: Confronting the Right in Dangerous Times. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Reviews

"This is, without a doubt, the most important sociological study of the U.S. right ever written. In a field so often dominated by polemic and jeremiad, this is the most lucid, systematic, sober, and sobering analysis I have ever read. This really is a landmark study, and will shape the contours of future research for generations to come." --Gerry O'Sullivan, Ph.D., Fordham University "Sara Diamond's Roads to Dominion is a major contribution to the literature on movements of the right in the U.S., a sweeping and at the same time careful and detailed account of the rise of right wing movements in the postwar era. While there are many scholars studying progressive social movements, Sara Diamond is one of a very few examining the currently much larger and more influential movements of the right. Her book is valuable for its informative and judicious presentation of this history and its balanced treatment of the various sections of the right: religious and secular, elite and popular. Diamond persuasively argues that movements of the right have grown by making alliances with elites in the realm of electoral politics while maintaining a popular culture outside the state. This book should be read by anyone who wants to understand the shift to the right that has taken place in the U.S. in recent decades." --Barbara Epstein, Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
"An excellent and highly educational book by a sociologist who writes in readable English. It teems with information about the history, leaders, organizations, and ideas of the major conservative movements of the last 50 years in the U.S.... Nobody exceeds Diamond... in the range and depth of information she provides about the conservative movements she has studied in historical perspective: how they arise, their resources, their ideologies, and the reasons for their successes and failures." --R.B. Fowler, University of Wisconsin - Madison "Sara Diamond's latest book is a welcome addition to this burgeoning literature, and quite different in its approach from other recent studies of the right....indispensable to anyone interested in right-wing social movements." --Abby L. Rerber, University of Colorado, Political Processes

"This is, without a doubt, the most important sociological study of the U.S. right ever written. In a field so often dominated by polemic and jeremiad, this is the most lucid, systematic, sober, and sobering analysis I have ever read. This really is a landmark study, and will shape the contours of future research for generations to come." --Gerry O'Sullivan, Ph.D., Fordham University

"Sara Diamond's Roads to Dominion is a major contribution to the literature on movements of the right in the U.S., a sweeping and at the same time careful and detailed account of the rise of right wing movements in the postwar era. While there are many scholars studying progressive social movements, Sara Diamond is one of a very few examining the currently much larger and more influential movements of the right. Her book is valuable for its informative and judicious presentation of this history and its balanced treatment of the various sections of the right: religious and secular, elite and popular. Diamond persuasively argues that movements of the right have grown by making alliances with elites in the realm of electoral politics while maintaining a popular culture outside the state. This book should be read by anyone who wants to understand the shift to the right that has taken place in the U.S. in recent decades." --Barbara Epstein, Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
"An excellent and highly educational book by a sociologist who writes in readable English. It teems with information about the history, leaders, organizations, and ideas of the major conservative movements of the last 50 years in the U.S.... Nobody exceeds Diamond... in the range and depth of information she provides about the conservative movements she has studied in historical perspective: how they arise, their resources, their ideologies, and the reasons for their successes and failures." --R.B. Fowler, University of Wisconsin - Madison "Sara Diamond's latest book is a welcome addition to this burgeoning literature, and quite different in its approach from other recent studies of the right....indispensable to anyone interested in right-wing social movements." --Abby L. Rerber, University of Colorado, Political Processes