Wrapped in the Flag

A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers . Named a best nonfiction book of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews and the Tampa Bay Times   Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted by ultraconservatives today, including campaigns against abortion rights, gay rights