Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781469674483)

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.

This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy donors and conservative intellectuals trained future GOP leaders such as Karl Rove, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, and others in conservative politics, providing them with tactics to consciously drive American politics and culture further to the authoritarian right and to "reclaim" American higher education.

Author: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
ISBN-10: 1469674483
ISBN-13: 9781469674483
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2024