Pink and red-tinted glasses colored their worldview. That world, which Mulloy covers during the 1950s and 1960s, was dominated by a paranoid, suspicious, and conspiratorial sensibility that melded emotion and reason (unhealthily, I believe). I also mentioned JBS earlier this year, with a preliminary comment on Mulloy’s work: I brought it up in a critique of George Nash’s Conservative Intellectual in America: Since 1945 (which engendered a spirited comments section). The John Birch Society has arisen, as a conversation topic, many times here at the blog. more than doubled) my allowed word limit for the review, I thought I’d bring some of that excess here-for reflection and discussion.
Because the initial draft far exceeded (i.e.
The review will appear in AMSJ’s winter 2015 issue (Vol.
Mulloy’s The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014) for the American Studies Journal. Earlier this year I read and reviewed D.J.
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