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Conservative Bias examines one of the most notorious figures of modern American politics: Jesse Helms. Thrift shows that Helms was not merely a right-wing demagogue but rather a brilliant media mastermind who built a national movement from a little television soundstage in Raleigh. ? - Neil J. Young, Princeton University In this careful, thoughtful, and thoroughly researched study, Bryan Hardin Thrift provides the first comprehensive study of Jesse Helms's long career as a conservative journalist and television ideologue prior to his long tenure as a U.S. senator from North Carolina. -William A. Link, author of Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism Traces a little-known, but pivotal, phase of Helms's pre-senatorial career and explains how the future New Right leader used the power of local television broadcasts in the 1960s to forge a new ideology that moved the nation to the right. -Daniel K. Williams, author of God's Own Party

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Bryan Hardin Thrift is associate professor of history at Tougaloo College, USA.

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