“The average conservative reformist output consists of about three articles bashing liberal statism for every one questioning Republican dogma.” After LBJ’s 1964 landslide victory over Barry Goldwater and during the rush of progressive legislation that followed, Republican congressional leaders d...
Some people fall into both categories, but a large number of historians whom I have never met were essential to this work. You might say that I have come to feel as if I know some of them, simply because their books and essays were so important to me. I have tried in both the text and the endnote...