Volume 27, Number 14 · September 25, 1980

Power to the People

By Richard Sennett
Thunder on the Right: The "New Right" and the Politics of Resentment
by Alan Crawford

Pantheon, 381 pp., $13.95

Ronald Reagan is often said to owe much to the 'new right' and to count on its support in this year's election. Exactly what he can count on is not clear. Like most labels in American politics, the 'new right' stands for a mosaic of groups and programs whose parts do not fit together neatly.



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