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A Conspiratorial Life

Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism
  • Edward H. Miller
2021
The University of Chicago Press

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  • Members of the John Birch Society pledging allegiance to the flag at a meeting, Chicago, 1961.
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