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Author: Edward H Miller
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226448862
ISBN 10: 022644886
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 23 February 2022
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Format: Hardback
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"""The rise of Trump, Q-anon, and a Republican Party seemingly allergic to the ordinary canons of decency and expertise, has led historians to a reexamination of brands of American conservatism previously considered too extreme to be relevant to understanding the present. This work demands a rare combination of talents: an ability to empathize with ways of thinking from which reason recoils, and a moral sense that refuses to normalize it. Miller possesses both in abundance, which is what makes this groundbreaking biography of Robert Welch of the John Birch Society so very valuable.""-- ""Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980"" ""Miller has undertaken the definitive biography of John Birch Society founder Robert Welch, and he has succeeded. A Conspiratorial Life is incredibly thorough, carefully researched and written, and enlivened by energetic prose.""-- ""Heather Hendershot, author of Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line"""
The rise of Trump, Q-anon, and a Republican Party seemingly allergic to the ordinary canons of decency and expertise, has led historians to a reexamination of brands of American conservatism previously considered too extreme to be relevant to understanding the present. This work demands a rare combination of talents: an ability to empathize with ways of thinking from which reason recoils, and a moral sense that refuses to normalize it. Miller possesses both in abundance, which is what makes this groundbreaking biography of Robert Welch of the John Birch Society so very valuable. -- Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980 Miller has undertaken the definitive biography of John Birch Society founder Robert Welch, and he has succeeded. A Conspiratorial Life is incredibly thorough, carefully researched and written, and enlivened by energetic prose. -- Heather Hendershot, author of Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
""The rise of Trump, Q-anon, and a Republican Party seemingly allergic to the ordinary canons of decency and expertise, has led historians to a reexamination of brands of American conservatism previously considered too extreme to be relevant to understanding the present. This work demands a rare combination of talents: an ability to empathize with ways of thinking from which reason recoils, and a moral sense that refuses to normalize it. Miller possesses both in abundance, which is what makes this groundbreaking biography of Robert Welch of the John Birch Society so very valuable.""-- ""Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980"" ""Miller has undertaken the definitive biography of John Birch Society founder Robert Welch, and he has succeeded. A Conspiratorial Life is incredibly thorough, carefully researched and written, and enlivened by energetic prose.""-- ""Heather Hendershot, author of Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line""
Author Information
Edward H. Miller is associate teaching professor at Northeastern University and the author of Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
