The Baffler #13

Vox Populoid. Winter 1999. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding with uncracked spine. 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 considers the backlash bible known as Reader's Digest. Robert Nedelkoff discusses the black godfather of American fascism. And Dan Raeburn recalls when the beloved comic strip Li'l Abner took its sharp turn to the right. Dan Kelly tells the antiheroic 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