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Shadow network media, money, and the secret hub of the radical right

In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for Nat...

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Main Author: Nelson, Anne, 1954- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019]
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Conservatism > United States.
Right and left (Political science) > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 21st century.
Political culture > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dramatis personae
  • Prologue
  • In the beginning: Texas
  • The birth of the CNP: Washington
  • Lords of the air: the CNP's media empire
  • The news hole in the heart of America
  • Money people
  • Fishers of men: electoral stratagems
  • Ideology 101: the CNP's campus partners
  • Koch, DeVos, Soros: donors, politics, and pastors
  • The Obama challenge
  • Data wars
  • The art of the deal: New York, June 21, 2016
  • "The Miracle"
  • Midterms
  • "Democracy in America"
  • Epilogue.

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