Heritage foundation
January 24, 2016 9:58 AM Subscribe
I'm interested in learning as much as possible about the Heritage Foundation, especially its involvement in the Reagan administration. Are there any books or articles you could point me towards?
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Sara Diamond's writing on the U.S. right might be worth looking at. Excerpt from her book Roads to Dominion: Right-wing Movements and Political Power in the United States that discusses the Heritage Foundation can be found here.
Mandate for Leadership (pdf), published as Reagan took office, was one of their influential policy documents.
According to this article:
Despite the publication's academic prose and mind-boggling level of detail, it caused a sensation. A condensed version -- still more than 1,000 pages -- became a paperback bestseller in Washington. The newly elected Ronald Reagan passed out copies at his first Cabinet meeting, and it quickly became his administration’s blueprint. By the end of Reagan’s first year in office, 60 percent of the Mandate’s 2,000 ideas were being implemented, and the Republican Party’s status as a hotbed of intellectual energy was ratified. It was a Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who would declare in 1981, “Of a sudden, the GOP has become a party of ideas.”
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:22 AM on January 24, 2016
Mandate for Leadership (pdf), published as Reagan took office, was one of their influential policy documents.
According to this article:
Despite the publication's academic prose and mind-boggling level of detail, it caused a sensation. A condensed version -- still more than 1,000 pages -- became a paperback bestseller in Washington. The newly elected Ronald Reagan passed out copies at his first Cabinet meeting, and it quickly became his administration’s blueprint. By the end of Reagan’s first year in office, 60 percent of the Mandate’s 2,000 ideas were being implemented, and the Republican Party’s status as a hotbed of intellectual energy was ratified. It was a Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who would declare in 1981, “Of a sudden, the GOP has become a party of ideas.”
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:22 AM on January 24, 2016
Rick Perlstein's The Invisible Bridge (review) covers the period from Nixon's resignation to Reagan's primary challenge in 1976, and addresses the early years of Heritage in the context of both the Republican base and the broader national mood. (The book he's currently writing covers the years leading to Reagan's election.)
posted by holgate at 10:29 AM on January 24, 2016
posted by holgate at 10:29 AM on January 24, 2016
Best answer: Sidney Blumenthal's "The Rise of the Counter-Establishment" and also Diamond.
posted by johngoren at 10:44 AM on January 24, 2016
posted by johngoren at 10:44 AM on January 24, 2016
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