Sara Diamond, PhD, a leading authority on right-wing movements in the United States, holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California. She is the author of Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States; Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right; and Facing the Wrath: Confronting the Right in Dangerous Times. She lives in Berkeley, California.
"This is, without a doubt, the most important sociological study of
the U.S. right ever written. In a field so often dominated by
polemic and jeremiad, this is the most lucid, systematic, sober,
and sobering analysis I have ever read. This really is a landmark
study, and will shape the contours of future research for
generations to come." --Gerry O'Sullivan, Ph.D., Fordham University
"Sara Diamond's Roads to Dominion is a major contribution to the
literature on movements of the right in the U.S., a sweeping and at
the same time careful and detailed account of the rise of right
wing movements in the postwar era. While there are many scholars
studying progressive social movements, Sara Diamond is one of a
very few examining the currently much larger and more influential
movements of the right. Her book is valuable for its informative
and judicious presentation of this history and its balanced
treatment of the various sections of the right: religious and
secular, elite and popular. Diamond persuasively argues that
movements of the right have grown by making alliances with elites
in the realm of electoral politics while maintaining a popular
culture outside the state. This book should be read by anyone who
wants to understand the shift to the right that has taken place in
the U.S. in recent decades." --Barbara Epstein, Professor, History
of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
"An excellent and highly educational book by a sociologist who
writes in readable English. It teems with information about the
history, leaders, organizations, and ideas of the major
conservative movements of the last 50 years in the U.S.... Nobody
exceeds Diamond... in the range and depth of information she
provides about the conservative movements she has studied in
historical perspective: how they arise, their resources, their
ideologies, and the reasons for their successes and failures."
--R.B. Fowler, University of Wisconsin - Madison "Sara Diamond's
latest book is a welcome addition to this burgeoning literature,
and quite different in its approach from other recent studies of
the right....indispensable to anyone interested in right-wing
social movements." --Abby L. Rerber, University of Colorado,
Political Processes
"This is, without a doubt, the most important sociological study of the U.S. right ever written. In a field so often dominated by polemic and jeremiad, this is the most lucid, systematic, sober, and sobering analysis I have ever read. This really is a landmark study, and will shape the contours of future research for generations to come." --Gerry O'Sullivan, Ph.D., Fordham University
"Sara Diamond's Roads to Dominion is a major contribution
to the literature on movements of the right in the U.S., a sweeping
and at the same time careful and detailed account of the rise of
right wing movements in the postwar era. While there are many
scholars studying progressive social movements, Sara Diamond is one
of a very few examining the currently much larger and more
influential movements of the right. Her book is valuable for its
informative and judicious presentation of this history and its
balanced treatment of the various sections of the right: religious
and secular, elite and popular. Diamond persuasively argues that
movements of the right have grown by making alliances with elites
in the realm of electoral politics while maintaining a popular
culture outside the state. This book should be read by anyone who
wants to understand the shift to the right that has taken place in
the U.S. in recent decades." --Barbara Epstein, Professor, History
of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
"An excellent and highly educational book by a sociologist who
writes in readable English. It teems with information about the
history, leaders, organizations, and ideas of the major
conservative movements of the last 50 years in the U.S.... Nobody
exceeds Diamond... in the range and depth of information she
provides about the conservative movements she has studied in
historical perspective: how they arise, their resources, their
ideologies, and the reasons for their successes and failures."
--R.B. Fowler, University of Wisconsin - Madison "Sara Diamond's
latest book is a welcome addition to this burgeoning literature,
and quite different in its approach from other recent studies of
the right....indispensable to anyone interested in right-wing
social movements." --Abby L. Rerber, University of Colorado,
Political Processes
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