No. 13 ~ Vox PopuloidBUY ISSUE
In which we kicked off our long-running study of American conservatism with a look at the nation’s long parade of kooks and cranks. In it, Jeff Sharlet remembers Westbrook Pegler, the “It Boy of attack journalism.” Dave Mulcahey remembers the backlash bible known as Reader’s Digest. Robert Nedelkoff remembers the black godfather of American fascism. And Dan Raeburn remembers when the beloved comic strip Li’l Abner took its sharp turn to the right. Dan Kelly tells the anti-heroic story of the John Birch Society. Daniel Lazare traces the career of The New Criterion’s Hilton Kramer. Christian Parenti singlehandedly launches the discipline of Seventies Studies with an essay about wildcat strikes. With microfilm-pastiche art by Hunter Kennedy and fiction by Aleksandar Hemon, no. 13 was editor in chief Thomas Frank’s favorite issue of them all. Winter 1999.
Table of Contents
Salvos
- Atlas Finally Shrugged Christian Parenti
- On the Stick David Moberg
- Remainder Table: Jack B. Tenney and Lawrence Dennis Robert Nedelkoff
- Cordon Sanitaire Eric Mchenry
- Hollywood’s Corporate Art Jerome Christensen
- Radical Madison Paul Buhle
- Cream City Confidential Jim Arndorfer
- Birchismo Dan Kelly
- Modernism as Kitsch Daniel Lazare
- The Brand Called Shmoo Daniel Raeburn
- The Rod of Correction David Mulcahey
- Legionnaire’s Disease Thomas Frank
- Paradise Shot to Hell: The Westbrook Pegler Story J. C. Sharlet