{"product_id":"the-other-side-of-the-sixties-young-americans-for-freedom-and-the-rise-of-conservative-politics-perspectives-on-the-sixties-series-9780813524016","title":"The Other Side of the Sixties Young Americans for","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Side of the Sixties offers a gripping account of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), an organization that became a leading force in promoting conservative ideas and that helped lay the groundwork for today's conservatism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprehensive, dispassionate, and useful. -- David Frum * Manhattan Institute *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating account of a too long overlooked aspect of the 1960s: the counterattack of AmericaÆs young conservatives who battled the left courageously and ultimately won the war. -- William A. Rusher * Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute *\u003cbr\u003eProfessor AndrewÆs book fills a gaping hole in the social\/political history of the sixties. He tells us now of the spirited movement of young people that peaked in the election of Ronald Reagan. -- William F. Buckley Jr.\u003cbr\u003eThere are good histories of post-WW II conservative thought such as George H. NashÆs The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, since 1945 (CH, Oct Æ76), but there has long been a need for more serious scholarship on postwar American conservative movements. Andrew (history, Franklin Marshall College) expertly fills this need for one movementùYoung Americans for Freedomùwhich, as he points out, was the most controversial youth movement in US politics in the first half of the 1960Æsà.Andrew is especially sharp in providing a rewarding look inside YAF in these years, explaining its organizational dynamics, its leadership and their interpersonal conflicts, and the factional struggles over distinguishing YAF from both liberal Republicans and John Birchers. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eAndrew makes a significant contribution to sixtiesÆ historiography by refocusing scholarly and public attention on the activities of conservative youth during that tumultuous decade. -- Mary C. Brennan * author of Turning Right in the Sixties *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe origins of the \"new right\"\u003cbr\u003e The republican party, 1960, and the struggle over \"modern republicanism\"\u003cbr\u003e The Sharon Conference and the Founding of YAF\u003cbr\u003e The thrill of treason\u003cbr\u003e Divisions in conservative ranks\u003cbr\u003e Attacking the new frontier\u003cbr\u003e JFK and the right wing\u003cbr\u003e Taking on the G.O.P\u003cbr\u003e YAF and the crusade for conservatism in 1964","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405773021527,"sku":"9780813524016","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813524016.jpg?v=1730493564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-other-side-of-the-sixties-young-americans-for-freedom-and-the-rise-of-conservative-politics-perspectives-on-the-sixties-series-9780813524016","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}