The Conservative Sixties tells the other story of America in the era of leftwing protests countercultural experiments and a civil rights revolution. Ten original historical essays focus on Phyllis Schlafly Ronald Reagan Barry Goldwater the John Birch Society the Minutemen Moral Mothers and Goldwater Girls Cowboy Conservatives National Politics versus Community Interest BelowtheBelt Politics and the Politics of Law and Order. The Conservative Sixties demonstrates that throughout the 1960s rightwing activists organized at the grassroots rethought their priorities discovered new allies and prepared to defeat liberals in the political and cultural arenas. This history of the 1960s puts the presidencies of Ronald Reagan George H. Bush and George W. Bush as well as the conservative turn of Congress and the American people into historical perspective.