From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich by Dan T Carter

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This work focuses on the evolution of race as an issue in presidential politics. The author traces the "counterrevolutionary" response to the civil rights movement since 1963 and detects a confluence of racial and economic conservatism that reshaped American politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

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From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich by Dan T Carter

This work focuses on the evolution of race as an issue in presidential politics. The author traces the counterrevolutionary response to the civil rights movement since 1963 and detects a confluence of racial and economic conservatism that reshaped American politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Dan T. Carter, former president of the Southern Historical Association and Educational Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, is the author of Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History; From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994; and After the War Was Over: The Craven Award is given to the best film of the year.

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ISBN 13 9780807121184
ISBN 10 0807121185
Title From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich
Author Dan T Carter
Series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures In Southern History
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Year published 1996-11-01
Number of pages 144
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