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Article: Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade.(Book review)
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- International Social Science Review
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- March 22, 2006
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Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 422 pages. Cloth, $29.95.
Donald T. Critchlow offers a history of the Republican party from the 1950s to the present using the noteworthy career of Phyllis Schlafly as the source of milestone events that bring the story to life. The groundwork for Schlafly's career as a conservative Republican activist was set by a series of jobs that she occupied after earning her master's degree in political science at Harvard and Radcliffe's graduate school in 1945. In 1946, she worked as a researcher for a right-wing think tank, the ...