Book review: America’s Right: anti-establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party

"America’s Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party." Robert B. Horwitz. Polity Press. May 2013. --- 21st century American conservatism has moved far beyond the Reagan Revolution of small government, lower taxes and a respect for tradition. The alliance of libertarians, neoconservatives, and the Christian right has launched anxious and angry attacks on the purported homosexual agenda, the “hoax” of climate change, the rule by experts and elites, and the banishment of religion from the public realm. This book examines the nature of anti–establishment conservatism, traces its development from the 1950s to the Tea Party, and explains its political ascendance. This book will not disappoint students of US politics, writes Joel Krupa.