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Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. Same handle at Blsky & Mastodon.
The Conscience of a Conservative
Barry GoldwaterSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other placesThis letter was raising money for the Media Research Center run by Brent Bozell. He was the son of Bill Buckley's debate partner from Yale who ghostwrote Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative. His son, meanwhile, was one of the Jan 6 rioters. https://t.co/hxDfq2cQmy
Hardcover, 2023
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Democracy in America
Alexis de TocquevilleSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other placesLeft—what is outlawed Right—a paragraph from Democracy in America by specifically recommended author, Alexis De Tocqueville. https://t.co/wiYEouSmfz
Paperback, 2006
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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Rick PerlsteinSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places“Very frankly,” Ronald Reagan said of Roots, “I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.” --Quoted in Reaganland, by Rick Perlstein
Paperback, 2021
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Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
Matthew DallekSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other placesI read Matthew Dallek's excellent new book "Birchers" this weekend and, in proper academic form, I have a question that's actually more of a comment. https://t.co/oFSbq6yO1l
Hardcover, 2023
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Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
Jeremy W. PetersSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other placesReading "Insurgency" by Jeremy Peters (which is really good so far) and it sent me searching for this great moment of Palin punditry when she said the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol was terrible, but was perhaps the work of Antifa and definitely the fault of "the media." https://t.co/9Pn3nByzTo
Hardcover, 2022
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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Kathleen BelewSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other placesIn 1965 a Gallup poll found that 6% of Americans had a favorable view of the KKK. In 1979 that same poll found that 11% of Americans had a favorable view of the KKK. Source: Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home.
Paperback, 2019
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Share Our Wealth: A Manual for the Share Our Wealth Society
Huey P. LongSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places@RickySKron Yes. Loosely modeled on Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" plan.
Paperback, 2020
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Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Woody HoltonSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places"Between 1790 and 1796...nearly five-sixths of federal operating expenditures were devoted to fighting Indians [to make land available for white settlers in what would become Mandel’s state of Ohio]" --Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, p. 268. https://t.co/tLjVp1nkvE
Paperback, 2008
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Democracy in America
Alexis De TocquevilleSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other placesLeft—what is outlawed Right—a paragraph from Democracy in America by specifically recommended author, Alexis De Tocqueville. https://t.co/wiYEouSmfz
Paperback, 2002
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookReaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Rick PerlsteinSeth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places““Very frankly,” Ronald Reagan said of Roots, “I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.”” — Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein https://t.co/jbr7IYvnUC
Paperback, 2021
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