Invisible Hands
The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

There's been a lot of historical scholarship recently (Kruse, Lassiter, Crespino, etc) on the mass grassroots movements on the Right in 20th century America. Philips-Fein instead offers an examination of the behind-the-scenes backers who provided financial support and intellectual legitimacy to thes......more

The victories against the New Deal are not cultural but largely economic. “The Keynesian belief that consumption is the key determinant of economic growth”, had been coupled with Edward Bernay’s development of PR/Propaganda, in order to make us think that buying even an electric carving knife is mor......more

A very even-handed and fascinating account of the making of modern, free-market conservatism. Philips-Fein highlights a host of little known individuals who had a powerful impact on the growth of conservative thought and political power over the last seventy years. One example would be William Barood......more

This is a book about the relationship between business interests and the conservative movement in 20th century America. It is about organizations like the National Association of Manufacturers and the Foundation for Economic Education, intellectuals like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, and poli......more

In 1978, former United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser got to the heart of the matter. In a well-known letter of resignation from the pseudo-corporatist Labor-Management Group, Fraser thundered against the passing of the New Deal order and the ascendancy of corporate power and free-market ideo......more