Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right SS_Gift_Guide Lightman weaves these investigations together

Lightman weaves these investigations together to propose what he calls “spiritual materialism”— the belief that we can embrace spiritual experiences without letting go of our scientific worldview

he's determined to unearth every last buried secret

when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills

all drawn from the world of big data

he accepts and returns to that vast wilderness

Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right SS_Gift_Guide Lightman weaves these investigations togetherHow a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At the height of the John Birch Societys activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, Birchers believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Societys extremism remade American