Saloma, John S.III. Ominous Politics: The New Conservative Labyrinth. New York: Hill and Wang, 1984. 177 pages.

The liberal magazine The Nation sponsored this little volume packed with names and facts about the neoconservative or New Right movement. John Saloma, the first president of the liberal Republican Ripon Society, died in 1983 and never saw the finished work. Two other books in NameBase on the same topic are Thunder on the Right by Alan Crawford (1980) and The Rise of the Counter-Establishment by Sidney Blumenthal (1988). Crawford wrote before some of the important players were visible, while Blumenthal is more interested in neoconservative ideology.

Saloma, on the other hand, gives a succinct overview of who's who, who's connected to who, and where the money comes from. His chapters include think tanks (17 pages), the foundations (14 pages), political action groups (12 pages), the religious right (13 pages), the corporations (18 pages), conservatives in Congress (13 pages), the Republican Party (10 pages), conservatives and the media (14 pages), the public interest law firms (5 pages), conservative Democrats and Libertarians (7 pages), and Black Republicans (8 pages). His selected references consist of eight pages of magazine and newspaper citations from 1978-1982.
ISBN 0-8090-0159-4

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