Paper 24 reading list

——, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race and the Counterrevolution 1963-1994 (1996)
Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution
(2007)
David Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image (2003)
Joan Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered (1994)
Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980 (2010)
Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005)
Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (1990)
Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2006)
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001)
Robert Mason, Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004)
Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the
1970s (2008)
Melvin Small, The Presidency of Richard Nixon (1999)
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1998)
d. Jimmy Carter
Gary M. Fink and Hugh Davis Graham, eds., The Carter Presidency (1998)
Erwin C. Hargrove, Jimmy Carter as President (1998)
Burton I. Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter (1993; 2006)
Timothy Stanley, Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party’s Soul (2010)
27. DOMESTIC POLITICS SINCE 1981
Topics include: the limits of government authority in the inflation of the 1970s; the rise of cultural issues
and Christian Conservatism; the Rights Revolution; the backlash against big government; Republican
southern strategies; massive deficits and economic troubles; economic growth, Republican revival and a
new Democratic party in the 1990s.
a. General
Dean Baker, The United States since 1980 (2007)
Godfrey Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (2006)
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