Full name: Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

Author: Kim Phillips-Fein Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Politics, Non Fiction, Economics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393059304 9780393337662 0393059308

Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America--and their profit margins--from socialism and the "nanny state." Long before the "culture wars" usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, these driven individuals funded think tanks, fought labor unions, and formed organizations to market their views. These nearly unknown, larger-than-life, and sometimes eccentric personalities--such as GE's zealous, silver-tongued Lemuel Ricketts Boulware and the self-described "revolutionary" Jasper Crane of DuPont--make for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes view of American history. The winner of a prestigious academic award for her original research on this book, Kim Phillips-Fein is already being heralded as an important new young American historian. Her meticulous research and narrative gifts reveal the dramatic story of a pragmatic, step-by-step, check-by-check campaign to promote an ideological revolution--one that ultimately helped propel conservative ideas to electoral triumph. Similar books: Suburban Warriors by Lisa McGirr Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein The Establishment by Owen Jones The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Blowout by Rachel Maddow Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Chavs by Owen Jones No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein Hidden Agendas by John Pilger How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes The New Road to Serfdom by Daniel Hannan The Other America by Michael Harrington Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis The Lords of Creation by Frederick Lewis Allen The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray