Steve Hausman

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New Books in History · Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

What does this apotheosis kind of look like?

Which, of course, brings us to someone like Ronald Reagan in the late 70s and early 1980s who, you know, you can't think of a better example of that kind of cowboy conservatism.

I mean, here's someone that loves to play cowboy for the camera whenever he gets a chance to and is very much sort of in line with that gold, watery sort of version of conservatism as well.

Yeah.

And you wrap up the book right around there, talking about the so-called Reagan Revolution and the conservative takeover in the 1980s, too.

So as we begin to wrap up here, I wanted to ask a couple kind of big picture and methodology questions.

And the first one I wanted to ask about was your bibliography, because you take kind of an interesting approach to the bibliography of history.

This book, I mean, I really appreciate it.

I thought it was very well done.

You know, I'm a historian, too.

A part of me always loves bibliographies, but they're not always a joy to read.

This one was genuinely an interesting read.

So tell me a little bit about the form of the bibliography.

Can you explain it a bit and then tell me why you went with this particular approach?

Well, and I love the, as you call it, the kind of bespoke bibliography because it makes the bibliography more accessible.

I mean, like I was saying a second ago, I'm a historian.

I love a big old long list of sources as much as the next guy, as much as the next historian.

But this is a book that, as you were indicating, was written – and I certainly think so –

in an accessible way.

It's the kind of book that, you know, maybe not every single person is going to pick up off the shelf and read, but that I get the sense was written with a kind of wider audience in mind.

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