Daniel K Williams

"From the perspective of the early twenty-first century, the 1976 election looks like an odd anomaly: a bygone moment when the evangelical candidate with strong support from his fellow Southern Baptists was a Democrat and the Republican candidate was a social moderate whose wife loudly proclaimed her support for Roe v. Wade and who was able to win culturally liberal states such as Oregon, California, and New Jersey, even while losing Ohio, Texas,...

"This volume offers a new perspective on American conservatism in the 1960s and the way in which the changes of the decade shaped the development of American politics for the next half-century. Historians have increasingly begun to view the sixties as a decade of conservatism, and a spate of landmark books in the field have traced the careers of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Wallace. Much, however, is still unknown about...