Cover of America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Over America

America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Over America

Penned by movement conservatives actively involved in their subject matter, this book describes how, beginning in the 1950s, the American right wing began to establish their own media as a means of building the movement. The authors describe the impact of talk radio, direct mail, conservative- oriented cable news, the Internet and other alternativ

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adult
Length
medium · 375 pages

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