Studying the US Political Right-General Bibliography

Conservative Right

Overviews of the Conservative Right

Books & Reports

Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, (New York: Guilford, 1995).
Jerome L. Himmelstein, To The Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
Amy Elizabeth Ansell, ed., Unraveling the Right: The New Conservatism in American Thought and Politics, (New York: Westview, 1998).
Clarence Y. H. Lo and Michael Schwartz, eds., Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda, (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998).
Sally Covington, Moving a Public Policy Agenda: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations, (Washington, DC: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, 1997).
Chip Berlet, ed., Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash, (Boston: South End Press, 1995).

Infrastructure of Conservative Right

Books & Reports

Sally Covington, Moving a Public Policy Agenda: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations, (Washington, DC: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, 1997).
Buying a Movement: Right-Wing Foundations and American Politics, (Washington, DC: People for the American Way, 1996).
Leon Howell, Funding the War of Ideas, (Cleveland: OH: United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1995)
Mark Schapiro, Who's Behind the Culture War?: Contemporary Assaults on Freedom of Expression, (New York: Nathan Cummings Foundation, 1994).

Articles & Chapters

Beth Schulman, "Foundations for a Movement: How the Right Wing Subsidizes its Press," Extra! (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), special issue on "The Right-Wing Media Machine," March/April 1995, p. 11.
Lawrence Soley, "Right-Think Inc.," City Pages, (Minneapolis, MN), 10/31/90, p. 10.
David Callahan, "Liberal Policy's Weak Foundations: Fighting the 'Bull Curve,' " The Nation, November 13, 1995, pp. 568-572.
"The Right-Wing Media Machine," special issue, Extra! (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), March/April 1995.

Conservative Right Framing of Issues

Books & Reports

Clarence Y. H. Lo and Michael Schwartz, eds., Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda, (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998).
To Reclaim a Legacy of Diversity: Analyzing the `Political Correctness' Debates in Higher Education, (Washington, DC: National Council for Research on Women, 1993).
Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1992).
Abby L. Ferber, White Man Falling: Race, Gender, and White Supremacy, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

Articles & Chapters & Chapters

Ellen Messer-Davidow, "Manufacturing the Attack on Liberalized Higher Education," Social Text, Fall 1993, pp. 40-80.
Ellen Messer-Davidow, "Who (Ac)Counts and How," MMLA (The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association), Spring 1994.
Chip Berlet, "Who's Mediating the Storm? Right-Wing Alternative Information Networks," in Linda Kintz & Julia Lesage, eds., Culture, Media, and the Religious Right (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998)