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"Revolutionary Monsters presents a collective biography of five modern day revolutionaries who came into power calling for the liberation of the people only to end up killing millions of people in the name of revolution: Lenin (Russia), Mao (China), Castro (Cuba), Mugabe (Zimbabwe), and Khomeini (Iran). Revolutionary Monsters explores basic questions about the revolutionary personality, and examines how these revolutionaries came to envision themselves as prophets of a new age"--Inside jacket

"In Defense of Populism challenges didactic accounts of populism as either simply expressions of the oppressed demanding that the democratic dream be realized or anxiety-ridden, anti-intellectual, paranoid, anti-democratic reactions to a changing order. Instead, this book submits that grassroots activist movements-populist movements-are essential to American democracy. At decisive points in American politics, social protest movements-whether on the left or the right-force established parties and leaders to bow to reform. In this way, anti-elitist social protest becomes absorbed by established powers. At the same time, the demands for democratic reform become institutionalized in the modern American state, ironically creating an enlarged bureaucratic government that is further removed from the people. This progression from protest to political absorption to institutionalization is evidenced in critical episodes in the American reform tradition. Indeed, American history is replete with these cycles of political disequilibrium followed by stabilization. In arguing for the necessary importance of populism to political reform, this book explores specific episodes in modern American history that reveal the interplay of populist social action and party reform: agrarian populism in the late nineteenth century, anti-corporatism in the Progressive Era, class protest during the New Deal, the struggle for black equality in the early Cold War era, second-wave feminism in the 1970s, and anti-statist New Right protest in the late twentieth century. "--

The politics of the Constitution, 1787-1789 -- Contentious people and factious parties in the early Republic, 1789-1824 -- The age of democracy, 1816-1844 -- The politics of slavery : prelude to the Civil War, 1844-1860 -- Politics in war and Reconstruction, 1861-1876 -- Gilded Age frustration and the progressive response, 1877-1918 -- Affluence, Depression, and World War, 1920-1945 -- Early Cold War politics, 1945-1974 -- Tumultuous politics continued, 1974-present

Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Coming together were stars such as John Wayne, Robert Taylor, George Murphy and many others, who joined studio heads Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Walt Disney and Jack Warner to rebuild the Republican Party. They found support among a large group of business leaders who poured money and skills into this effort, which paid off with the election of George Murphy to the US Senate and of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to the highest office in the nation. This is an exciting story based on extensive new research that will forever change how we think of Hollywood politics

[Part I.] The conservative ascendancy / Donald T. Critchlow. Documents; Conservatives debate the cold war: Excerpt from "Conservatism and the National Review: criticism and reply" / Ronald Hamowy and William F. Buckley, Jr. -- Young conservatives organize: The Sharon Statement -- A conservative speaks in favor of civil rights / Senator Everett Dirksen -- A conservative opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Senator Barry Goldwater -- The cold war and the arms race: excerpt from Memorandum to Donald Rumsfeld / from Paul H. Nitze -- Conservative values: "Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of the Evangelicals" / Ronald Reagan -- "Creators of the Future" / Ronald Reagan -- Conservatives on religious freedom: "Religious Liberty" / Mitt Romney -- [Part II.] Guardians of Privilege / Nancy Maclean. Documents; "What is Conservatism?" / Frank Meyer -- "I Sense Here a Realignment of Southern Conservative Democrats" / Barry Goldwater -- "Integration is Communication" / Richard M. Weaver -- "Our Position on States' Rights Is the Same as Your Own": letters from William F. Buckley, Jr. to W. J. Simmons; Letter from W. J. Simmons to J. P. McFadden -- "King Was a Collectivist" / Young Americans for Freedom -- "Linda's Crusade" / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- "What's Wrong with 'Equal Rights' for Women?" / Phyllis Schlafly -- Jefferson Davis's Descendents...Are becoming Involved with the Republican Party": Southern Partisan interview with Trent Lott -- "An Open Letter to the Christian Coalition" / Elizabeth Birch

European intellectuals and conservative firebrands -- Triumph and travail in 1964 -- Trust and betrayal in the Nixon years -- The power of ideas and institutions -- The accident of history -- Forward to the promised land -- The Reagan decade -- Democrats rebound -- Americans divided

After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history. The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal family planning movement, shifting its focus from population