Furgurson,E. Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms. 1986
Furgurson, Ernest B. Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms. New York:
W.W. Norton, 1986. 302 pages.
Ernest Furgurson, chief of the Baltimore Sun's bureau in Washington,
and formerly in Moscow and Saigon, has also written a biography of William
Westmoreland. This unauthorized biography of Jesse Helms follows him from
boyhood and through his early career as a television commentator speaking
out against the "Communist infiltration of the civil rights movement."
In 1972 Jesse Helms won his Senate seat with money from conservative
financiers. He and his old friend Thomas F. Ellis put together a national
political money machine, one of the most effective ever seen on the Right.
Called the Congressional Club, it funded candidates and solicited support
on favorite issues through direct-mail campaigns. Some of its affiliates
included Jefferson Marketing and Hardison Corporation (for-profit companies
to handle logistics), and non-profit institutes such as the Coalition for
Freedom, the Institute of American Relations and its Foreign Affairs Council,
the American Family Institute, the Center for a Free Society, and the
Institute on Money and Inflation. Helms came into his own during the Reagan
years, when ideological conservatism enjoyed a resurgence at the same time
that many fundamentalist Christians with homespun values felt under siege.
In the Senate, Helms is mainly a maverick "spoiler," who uses his seniority
to gum up the works in one area until he gets what he wants in another.
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