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Morality, Public Policy, and Partisan Politics in American History: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2012

David T. Courtwright
David T. Courtwright*
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University of North Florida
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press 2013

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Notes

1. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text, ed. Holzer, Harold (New York, 1994), 359.Google Scholar

2. Powe, Lucas A. Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics (Cambridge, Mass., 2000), 494.Google Scholar

3. Perlstein, Rick, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York, 2001), 494–96Google Scholar. Perlstein identifies the speeding car as a “black Cadillac,” but the Choice footage at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xniUoMiHm8g, accessed 16 May 2012, shows a Lincoln, the make Johnson actually drove on his ranch.

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5. Sara Murray, “Obstacle to Deficit Cutting: A Nation of Entitlements,” Wall Street Journal, 14 September 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703791804575439732358241708.html, accessed 2 June 2010.

6. Courtwright, David T., No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America (Cambridge, Mass., 2010), chaps. 6, 11.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7. Jesse McKinley, “Legal-Marijuana Advocates Focus on a New Green,” New York Times, 25 March 2010.

8. Alison George, “What Righteousness Really Means,” New Scientist, 8 March 2012, http://blog.tcrouzet.com/images_tc//2012/03/What_righteousness_really_means.pdf, accessed 4 June 2012 (quoting Jonathan Haidt).

9. On the conservative political uses of morally abrasive capitalism, see Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Courtwright, No Right Turn, chaps. 5 and 11.