| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Gregory L. Schneider. Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right. New York: New York University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 263. $40.00.

Gregory L. Schneider's book chronicles the history of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), an organization of young right-wing activists that existed from the early 1960s through the 1980s. Part of the same conservative resurgence that pushed Barry Goldwater to run for president in 1960, YAF members worked hard for their cause both within the Republican Party and throughout the nation. Following their successful involvement in the 1964 Draft Goldwater movement, these young conservatives eagerly turned their energies to other projects. They mounted an often isolated battle on campuses imbued with countercultural liberalism and vigorously supported American anticommunist efforts, particularly those in Vietnam. Ironically, even as the larger conservative movement began to gain prominence and power during the 1970s and 1980s, YAF started to lose its focus, and members indulged in increasingly self-destructive internal battles. Although the organization continues to exist in abbreviated form on some campuses, it is but a shadow of the group that spawned the careers of men such as Richard A. Viguerie, David Keene, Tom Charles Huston, and Richard Allen. . . .

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