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227 INDEX ABC for Martin (Boland, 1935), 25 Abelson, Donald, 102–103, 123, 125 Abington Township School District v. Schempp (1963), 87–88, 91–92, 196n9 abortion: Bennett on, 36, 50; Christian Right and, 14–15, 87; culture wars and, 18; Global Gag Rule, 4; Left Behind series and, 87, 195n5; O’Reilly on, 147; Palin on, 176; in Reagan era, 16 Abu Ghraib, 127 academia, purported liberalism of, 1, 28, 108, 189n1 ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 152, 158, 159 ACTA (American Council of Trustees and Alumni), 196n2 ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), 32 ACTV (American Coalition for Traditional Values), 83, 87 Adams, John, 114, 115 Adams, John Quincy, 12 Adler, Jonathan H., 68 adoption of children by gays, 30, 148, 202n7 Adorno, Theodor, 158 adult readers: Book of Virtues and, 45–46, 191n5; Cheney’s picture books and adult works, continuity between, 118–119; Help! Mom! series and other partisan texts, 152, 153–154, 158, 165–166, 168–169; innocence of children as construct for, 172; Left Behind series for teens modeled on adult version, 79, 86 Adventures from the Book of Virtues (TV show), 47–48, 179, 192n14 advice literature, 23; commercial success of, 132; flaws of, 130, 132–138; growth and development of genre, 131–132. See also Help! Mom! series; The O’Reilly Factor for Kids AEI. See American Enterprise Institute Aesop’s fables, 44 AF&PA (American Forest & Paper Association ), 77, 194n8 Afghanistan War, 183 AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT-UP), 32 A Is for Abigail (Cheney, 2003), 105, 120 Albom, Mitch, 3 Alcatraz, Native American occupation of, 118 Alcott, Louisa May, 7 Alger, Horatio, 131, 137, 156 Alice in Wonderland (Carroll, 1865), 168 A-List series (Dean, 2003– ), 75 Allen, Brooke, 149–150 Allen, Mike, 118 Alloy Media & Marketing, 75 America: A Patriotic Primer (Cheney, 2002), 23, 105, 106, 111–119, 123, 171, 172. See also Cheney, Lynne, picture books of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 152, 158, 159 American Coalition for Traditional Values (ACTV), 83, 87 American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), 196n2 American Enterprise Institute (AEI): Cheney’s career at, 108; funding of Cheney’s picture books by, 23, 104–106; on future of Republican Party, 184; Goldwater backed by, 197n7; neoconservative influence via, 16; operating style and research tactics, changes in, 122–124; original political impartiality of, 121; prominence given to AEI in Cheney’s picture books, 112, 120 American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), 77, 194n8 American Forests, 54 American Indians. See Native Americans Americanization movement, 10 American Library Association, 167 The American Patriot’s Almanac (Bennett and Cribb, 2008), 124–125, 179 American Sunday School Movement, 25, 82, 93–98 American Sunday School Union, 95 Americans United, 88, 91 AM radio talk shows, conservative programming on, 1–2, 126, 189n2 Amway, 56 animals and children, connection between, 62–63 An Inconvenient Truth (documentary film, 2006), 68 anticommunist stance and American conservatism , 11, 16, 17, 105 INDEX 228 anti-green movement, 22, 56, 67–68 antimodernism. See traditionalism Apol, Laura, 17, 72–73 Ariès, Philippe, 169 arms, right to bear. See right to bear arms Aryan Nation, 18, 181 Askehave, Inger, 132, 136 Aspinwall, Alice, 192n12 Ayers, William, 182 Babbitt, Irving, 12 The Babees’ Book (15th century), 131 Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, 40 Bailey, Judith and Bill, 54–55, 67 Baker, James A., 19 Barnum, P. T., 43–44 Battle series (LaHaye, 1980–1983), 84–85, 87, 88 Bauer, Gary, 176 Baum, L. Frank, 168, 169 Bayh, Evan, 198n5 Beavis and Butt-Head (TV show), 34 Beck, Glenn, 185 Beder, Sharon, 65, 67 Behrendt, Greg, 132 Belasco, Amy, 20 Bellant, Russ, 67, 68 Belloc, Hilaire, 42 Bender, Frederick L., 194n7 Bennett, Elayne, 30 Bennett, William: The American Patriot’s Almanac (2008), 124–125, 179; background and career, 16, 28–31, 104, 107; on Cheney, 110; The Death of Outrage (1999), 2, 30; The Devaluing of America (1992), 30, 191n5; gambling problems of, 50, 192–193nn15–16; The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators (1994), 29, 35; innocence of childhood reconstituted by, 172, 173; moral and traditionalist concerns of, 28–31, 35–36; The Moral Compass (1995), 47; moral relativism and inconsistency of, 49–51; NEH funding, efforts to cut, 109; television, criticism of, 35, 47–48, 192n14; think tanks and, 29, 104, 124–125; To Reclaim a Legacy (1984), 28. See also The Book of Virtues Berlet, Chip, 11, 14–15 Berns, Walter, 197n4 Bettelheim, Bruno, 6 Bibles in public schools, 89, 91, 195n6, 196n10 Biden, Joseph, 127, 178 Birkett, Terri...

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