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Book SynopsisPivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques ofmAmerican colleges as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.
Trade ReviewA thoroughly researched, revelatory political history with abundant relevance for today. . . . Shepherd presents compelling evidence for the ways that these groups, although a minority on campus, have exerted long-lasting influence."—
Kirkus Reviews (STARRED review)
Any organization founded by William F. Buckley and M. Stanton Evans is not going to be supportive of free speech. As historian Lauren Lassabe Shepherd documents in
Resistance from the Right, Young Americans for Freedom has been characterized from the start as a group of extremely pampered establishment scions who are prone to both self-pity and deploying their social and legal power to silence their political enemies."—Jeet Heer,
The Nation A sobering and rigorous work of history, one with significant ramifications for the present. . . . Shepherd's account is a powerful corrective, a compelling narrative, and a frankly frightening parable."—
Jacobin
