Roads to dominion : [electronic resource] right-wing movements and political power in the United States / Sara Diamond.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-425) and index.

Delayed reaction: The right after World War II -- From McCarthy to Goldwater: The anticommunist movement of the 1950s and 1960s -- Organized resistance to preserve segregation -- Historical antecedents of the Christian right -- Breaking the impasse: New political and organizational opportunities for the conservative movement -- The Americanist movement and the persistence of racist nationalism -- Casting the first stones: The early mobilization of the Christian right -- The neoconservatives -- Right-wing power in the 1980s: The state-movement convergence -- Undaunted allies: The Christian right in the 1980s -- The racist right in the 1980s and 1990s: Diminished influence, resurgent violence -- After Reagan, rumbling on the right.