“Grassroots”
January 04, 2006
Charlotte Allen (a very interesting woman herself) has a great review of what sounds like an excellent book in FT, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade:Donald T. Critchlow’s impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly’s political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers—her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies—that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.
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