Left Right Politics Origin
Racist roots of Obama hatred
My political furlough is over. I’m back to daily scrutinizing Internet sites like the Washington insider’s Politico and the statistics-and poll-driven FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right. I’m E-mailing fragmentary, unoriginal thoughts on the ominous state of our politics to various friends.
Origin of the phrase “Hang a left and hang a right”
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Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) $22.66 In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers’s accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that “barefooted Africans” were training in Georgia to h… |
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning $7.38 “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define … |
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White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics $6.98 Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive impact on the shape of liberal politics long before black-white racial identity politics entered t… |
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