Invisible Hands: The Making Of The Conservative Movement From The New Deal To Rea

Kim Phillips-fein

Yayasan Obor Indonesia, Jan 13, 2009 - History - 356 pages

Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America--and their profit margins--from socialism and the nanny state. Long before the culture wars usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, these driven individuals funded think tanks, fought labor unions, and formed organizations to market their views. These nearly unknown, larger-than-life, and sometimes eccentric personalities--such as GE's zealous, silver-tongued Lemuel Ricketts Boulware and the self-described revolutionary Jasper Crane of DuPont--make for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes view of American history.

The winner of a prestigious academic award for her original research on this book, Kim Phillips-Fein is already being heralded as an important new young American historian. Her meticulous research and narrative gifts reveal the dramatic story of a pragmatic, step-by-step, check-by-check campaign to promote an ideological revolution--one that ultimately helped propel conservative ideas to electoral triumph.

Contents

• Paradise Lost: 3
• Down from the Mountaintop: 26
• Changing the Climate: 53
• Churches Radio Stations and Magazines: 68
• How to Break a Union: 87
• Suburban Cowboy: 115
• The Attack on the Free Enterprise System: 150
• Turning the Tide: 166
• Building the Business Activist Movement: 185
• Making the Moral Majority: 213
• The Market Triumphant: 236
• Epilogue: 263
• Acknowledgments: 270
• Bibliographic Essay and Note on Sources: 321
• Selected Bibliography: 332
• Index: 341

About the author

Kim Phillips-Fein is the author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal. She teaches history at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and has written for The Nation, Dissent, The Baffler, The Atlantic, and The New York Times, among other publications. She lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Invisible Hands: The Making Of The Conservative Movement From The New Deal To Rea
• Author: Kim Phillips-fein
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 2009
• ISBN: 0393059308, 9780393059304
• Length: 356 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / United States / 20th Century; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism