Part 1. Introduction: The Making of a Movement
First Steps, 1945-1968
Expanding the Base, 1968-1980
Clean Sweep, 1980-2000
Part 2. The Documents
1. First Steps, 1945-1968
1. America Turns the Corner, July 11, 1947 / David Lawrence
2. Platform of the States' Rights Democratic Party, 1948 / Strom Thurmond et al.
3. Lincoln Day Address, February 20, 1950 / Joseph R. McCarthy
4. Farewell Address to Congress, 1951 / Douglas MacArthur
5. From The Conservative Mind, 1953 / Russell Kirk
6. Publisher's Statement on Founding National Review, November 19, 1955 / William F. Buckley Jr.
7. Why the South Must Prevail, August 24, 1957 / National Review
8. From The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, 1959 / Robert Welch
9. From The Conscience of a Conservative, 1960 / Barry Goldwater
10. The Sharon Statement, 1960 / Young Americans for Freedom
11. From Capitalism and Freedom, 1962 / Milton Friedman
12. Rendezvous with Destiny, October 24, 1964 / Ronald Reagan
13. Who Is Accommodating to What? May 4, 1965 / L. Brent Bozell
2. Expanding the Base, 1968-1980
14. George Wallace for President Brochure, 1968
15. Two Speeches, October 20, 1969, and October 30,1969 / Spiro Agnew
16. Defense of the Republic, April 7, 1970 / Frank S. Meyer
17. Capital Punishment, December 3, 1971 / Donald Atwell Zoll
18. Confidential Memorandum: Attack on American Free Enterprise System, August 23, 1971 / Lewis F. Powell Jr.
19. "You in a Heap o' Trouble, Son," March 17, 1972 / Jeff MacNelly
20. Labor Day Radio Address, 1972 / Richard M. Nixon
21. Act Before It Is Too Late, September 1974 / National Rifle Association
22. From Affirmative Discrimination, 1975 / Nathan Glazer
23. The Taxfighters Are Coming! November 1975 / Alan Crawford
24. Interview with the Washington Star, January 18, 1976 / Phyllis Schlafly
25. Common Sense and the Common Danger, 1976 / Committee on the Present Danger
26. The NEA: A Washington Lobby Run Rampant, November 1978 / Eugene H. Methvin
27. American Weakness, September 1979 / Hugh Haynie
28. Building the Moral Majority, August 1979 / Paul Weyrich
29. Nomination Acceptance Speech, 1980 / Ronald Reagan
3. Clean Sweep, 1980-2000
30. From Wealth and Poverty, 1981 / George Gilder
31. Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 1983 / Ronald Reagan
32. Social Security: Continuing Crisis or Real Reform? 1983 / J. A. Dorn
33. Resolution on Abortion, June 1984 / Southern Baptist Convention
34. Report on Privatization, March 18, 1988 / President's Commission on Privatization
35. Opinion on the Juvenile Death Penalty, 1988 / Antonin Scalia
36. George Bush's Hidden Tax: The Explosion in Regulation, 1992 / William G. Laffer III
37. Abortion Drawings, 1993 / Jenny Westberg
38. From Dead Right, 1994 / David Frum
39. Resolution on Homosexual Marriage, June 1996 / Southern Baptist Convention
40. Middle-Class Families Need a Flat Tax, 1999 / Randy Tate
41. Anti-Christ Philosophy Already Controls America and Europe, September 1999 / Tim LaHaye
42. Nomination Acceptance Speech, 2000 / George W. Bush
A Chronology of the Conservative Movement (1947-2000)
Questions for Consideration.