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Matthew Dallek Author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

The Great Battlefield

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The Importance of Commitment in Organizing

The Birchers' focus on school boards is important today, he says. They showed that a small group of committed volunteers can have an outsized impact in local struggles at the local level,. Richard Nixon denounced the Birchers; they supported his Republican primary opponent for California governor.

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