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Part One: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars

Behind the Bastards

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Phyllis Schlaffly and the American Security Council

Phyllis Schlaffly was one of the first people who like starts writing literature, pamphlets and stuff to provide intellectual framework for what we today know is just like the religious right in the United States. Her first big book was a called a reading list for Americans. And it was just a bibliographical guide to anti-communist books that people could read. In the early 1960s, Phyllis gets involved with a group called the American Security Council which had been started to help corporations avoid communist influence in their companies.

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