CONSERVATIVE, RADICAL RIGHT, & RELIGIOUS POLITICAL RHETORIC
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Allan Louden, Wake Forest University (louden@wfu.edu)

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Father Coughlin, 1926

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