Suburban Warriors
Suburban Warriors In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet.…
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Suburban Warriors
In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines.
Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century.Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing