America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton
- ISBN-10
- 0801858720
- ISBN-13
- 9780801858727
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-05-22
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- William C. Berman
Description
Historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. In this new edition, Berman discusses the initial failure of the Clinton administration to establish a viable political alternative to the GOP.
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Other editions
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- 2004
- 375 pages
- Paperback
- Bonus Books, Inc.
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