Spanning nearly one hundred years of American political history and abounding with outsize characters - from Lindbergh to Goldwater, from Gingrich to Rove - White Protestant Nation is the first comprehensive and definitive history of the modern conservative movement in America. Veteran journalist and professor Allan Lichtman spent a decade combing through more than 150 manuscript collections in twenty-three states, and he uses his unprecedented primary research to tell the whole story of modern conservatism and its place within the big picture of United States history. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about the past, present, or future of American politics. Book jacket.