Author: Thomas W. Evans
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-OBIT: Thomas W. Evans, early backer of Nixon in 1968, dies at 82 (Matt Schudel June 18, 2013, Washington Post) -BOOK SITE: THe Education of Ronald Reagan (Columbia University Press) -GOOGLE BOOK : The Education of Ronald Reagan -Rendezvous with Destiny : The Ronald Reagan Centennial (General Electric) -ESSAY: The GE Years: What Made Reagan Reagan (Thomas W. Evans, 01/08/07, HNN) -ESSAY: Sue OPEC (THOMAS W. EVANS, June 19, 2008, NY Times) -LECTURE: The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism (Thomas W. Evans, Jan 19, 2007, Heritage Foundation) -ESSAY: GE Fondly Recalls Its Own 'Reagan Era': General Electric's Obama-backing CEO Jeffrey Immelt celebrates Ronald Reagan. (JOHN FUND, April 4, 2010, WSJ) -ESSAY: Enemies of State (Rick Perlstein, Winter 2011, Democracy Journal) The ambit and ambition of such thinking would grow wider and wider across the decades. Consider the career of perhaps the most important injector of such ideology into the bloodstream of Americans who were not businessmen and did not work under them in factories. He bears the obligingly Dickensian name of Lemuel Ricketts Boulware, and he is perhaps the most influential American most Americans have not heard of. Beginning in the late 1940s, he was General Electric’s “vice president for public and community relations,” a job title that spoke to his globalizing ideological ambitions. His main job was merely negotiating labor contracts, but he understood the work as political guerilla warfare: figuring out ways to speak directly to workers, over the heads of their unions, in, as Boulware’s best historian, Thomas W. Evans, explains, “a constant campaign, going on each day for years.” Boulware compared the job of his 3,000 “Employee Relations Managers” to that of General Electric salesmen “giving a turbine customer the information and guidance that would cause the latter of his own free will to want to do what we recommended as to the selection of the equipment and the signing of the order.” - - -REVIEW: of The Education of Ronald Reagan by Thomas W. Evans (Nicholas Wapshott, NY Sun) -REVIEW: of Education of Ronald Reagan (Steven F. Hayward, Claremont Review of Books) -REVIEW: of Education of Ronald Reagan (Robert A. Schadler, The American) -REVIEW: of Education of Ronald Reagan (DG Myers, Commonplace Blog) -REVIEW: of Education of Ronald Reagan (Rick Perlstein, New Republic) -REVIEW: of Education of Ronald Reagan (The Washington Times) -REVIEW: of The Education of Ronald Reagan (George Trefgarne, The Spectator) -REVIEW: of (Alan Snyder, Breitbart) -REVIEW: O Lucky Man!: The diaries of Ronald Reagan. (NICHOLAS LEMANN, The New Yorker) -REVIEW: of Reagan's Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson (Conrad Black, American Spectator) -WIKIPEDIA: Boulwarism -OBIT: Lemuel Ricketts Boulware, 95; Headed Labor Relations for G.E. (JOAN COOK, November 8, 1990, NY Times) -ESSAY: Boulwarism: Ideas Have Consequences (WILLIAM H. PETERSON, 4/01/1991, The Freeman) -SPEECH: SALVATION IS NOT FREE (LEMUEL BOULWARE, JUNE 11, 1949, HARVARD UNIVERSITY) -REVIEW: of Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (Paul LeBlanc, Monthly Review) -REVIEW: of The Truth about Boulwarism by Lemuel Boulware (Emerson P. Schmidt, Intercollegiate Review) The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism (2008) - Thomas Evans (12/09/1930-06/11/2013) (Grade:A) |
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