Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States : Conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s

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A study of the unprecedented mobilization and transformation of conservative movements on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars chart how and why countless new political organizations emerged as a self-styled 'silent majority' in defence of the existing order against a perceived left-wing threat.