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Wrapped in the Flag chronicles the radical right-wing world of the 1960s, when conspiracy ruled and the John Birch Society made countrywide headlines. The daughter of a John Birch Society head, Claire Conner introduces us to the extreme ideas of a powerful political fringe group dispensing radical answers to America's problems. Following in the footsteps of its hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, the John Birch Society believed an international Communist conspiracy was on the verge of overtaking the federal government of the United States. Top politicians, including Chief executive Dwight Eisenhower, were called Communist operatives. John F. Kennedy was regarded a Socialist traitor. Birchers fought civil protection under the law, labor unions, environmental protections, Medicare, welfare programs, the US, and even drinking water fluoridation. Today, the contemporary society continues many of those same promotions from its countrywide headquarters in Appleton, Wisconsin. Claire Conner's intimate account - based on details, documents and her firsthand knowledge - requires us profound inside one of the most radical right-wing motions in U.S. background. Moving seamlessly between memoir and background, laughter and pain, previous and present, Wrapped in the Flag serves up keen insight into the impact of extremism on one female, her family and, if unchecked, on our country.
