1. Robert Welch, The Blue Book of the John Birch Society (Boston: Western Islands, 1961), 128, 150;
2. Michael Kazin and Joseph A. McCartin, eds., Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
3. For one example of an important conservative thinker helping to identify intellectually respectable 1960s conservatives, see George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945 (New York: Basic Books, 1976). My thanks to Dan Williams for suggesting this definition of “mainstream” conservatism.
4. Alfred S. Regnery, Upstream: The Ascendency of American Conservatism (New York: Threshold Press, 2008), 77, 80. For works that cover Americanists’ role in the development of postwar conservatism,
5. see Donald T. Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 57, 59;