Overview

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 General Electric'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.

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"Engaging history from a talented new scholarly voice.-- ""Kirkus Starred Review"" ""A valuable addition to the history of conservatism."" -- ""Booklist"" ""Combining piquant profiles of corporate firebrands with a trenchant historical analysis ...Phillips-Fein makes an important contribution to our understanding of American conservatism."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"""

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Kimberly Phillips-Fein is the author of Fear City and Invisible Hands. 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. Lorna Raver, named one of AudioFile magazine's Best Voices of the Year, has received numerous Audie nominations and AudioFile Earphones Awards. An experienced stage actress, she has also guest-starred on many top television series and starred in director Sam Raimi's film Drag Me to Hell. Among her many Blackstone titles are The Age of Innocence, Up from Orchard Street, The Lodger, Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker, and Diamond Ruby.

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