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White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement

Allan Lichtman

Examines the origins, development, and achievements of conservatism in the United States, from the birth of the modern right in the 1920s through the restoration of the conservative consensus at the end of the twentieth century.

HistoryAmerican History · medium confidenceAmerican History81 signalsLlm Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryTopic Classifier: Constitutional History -> American HistoryConstitutional HistoryAmerican PoliticsBlack History & Culture

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor2008FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The book argues that U.S. conservatism originated and developed from the modern right’s birth in the 1920s and later restored a conservative consensus by the end of the twentieth century.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    38 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 48%.