Volume 28, Number 18 · November 19, 1981
The Triumphs of the New Right
By Frances FitzGerald
The New Right: We're Ready to Lead
by Richard A. Viguerie, introduction by Jerry Falwell
Caroline House, 260 pp., $8.95
The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly
by Carol Felsenthal
Doubleday, 337 pp., $13.95
Just after the 1980 election the ABC show called 'Nightline' put the satellite technology of television to work to create an extraordinary electronic encounter between Senator George McGovern, Senator Frank Church, Senator Birch Bayh, Jerry Falwell, and Paul Weyrich. The three just-defeated senators had never met their opponents before, and the two sides knew so little about each other that both were disarmed. Instead of the usual political fencing match the debate was a raw, emotional confrontation.
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