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Book SynopsisA revealing portrait of an international anticommunist crusader whose life presaged the role of religion in right-wing American politics today.
Trade Review“Teaching Anticommunism is a first-class piece of historical scholarship. It opens new avenues for scholarship and serves as a model for further research for the politics and culture of the early Cold War era.” American Historical Review
“A sober, detailed, and fair-minded portrait of an organization that attracted wealthy donors, numerous public figures, and thousands of middleclass, religious Americans to combat the Communist menace. [It] provides as thorough an accounting of the CACC’s successes and failures as we will ever need and suggests the ways the organization foreshadowed the rise of the “new right” of the 1980s.” Journal of Cold War Studies
“[Villeneuve’s] arguments connecting [the CACC and the US Right] are substantial and richly supported with evidence [and] shed light on a larger phenomenon and movement in US history. Artfully presented and diligently cited, this book adds a unique perspective to Cold War and US conservative history.” Cold War History
“Teaching Anticommunism builds a strong case that Schwarz and the CACC played key roles in forging the arguments against communism that had significant influence in the United States and across the globe.” Church History
« Outre son caractère instructif, cette monographie se distingue par son ton explicatif et nuancé. Qui plus est, la qualité de la recherche ne fait aucun doute : non seulement l’auteur a-t-il consulté quantité de sources secondaires judicieuses (travaux de Ellen Schrecker, Lisa McGirr, Andrew Hartman, Richard Horwitz, Allan Lichtman, etc.), mais encore faut-il ajouter qu’il a scrupuleusement examiné les bulletins de la CACC et pris connaissance de maints journaux. Il a aussi procédé au dépouillement de plusieurs fonds d’archives, parmi lesquels figurent en particulier ceux de William Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater [entre autres]. …cette pertinente et originale monographie [constitue] un apport précieux à l’historiographie de ces fascinantes années d’après-guerre chez nos voisins du Sud. » Bulletin d’histoire politique
