Nuclear Country: The Origins of the Rural New Right

by Catherine McNicol Stock

Militarization and nuclearization were the historical developments most essential to the creation of the rural New Right.

Both North Dakota and South Dakota have long been among the most reliably Republican states in the nation: in the past century, voters have only chosen two Democrats, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, and in 2016 both states preferred Donald Trump by over thirty points. Yet in the decades before World War...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252454
• ISBN13: 9780812252453
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"