No mercy : how conservative think tanks and foundations changed America's social agenda /

Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado provide an incisive analysis of the Right's rise to power. The authors show that, since the sixties, the Left has had little to do with setting the country's agenda and that conservative think tanks and foundations have been systematically abetting a cons...

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Main Author: Stefancic, Jean
Other Authors: Delgado, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.
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505 0 |a Seven campaigns that changed the face of America -- Official English -- Proposition 187 and immigration reform -- IQ, race, and eugenics -- The attack on affirmative action -- The attack on welfare and the poor -- Tort reform -- Campus wars -- How it happened and what to do about it . 
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