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Fascinating history of the John Birch Society marred by every attempt to cast the modern day ills of the conservative party as monocausal (it was the Birchers all along!). Dallek citing Birchers as the singular reason for government distrust in the 90s without bothering to bring up Ruby Ridge or Branch Dividian is a good example of the selective memory he employs to propose a grand theory of everything Republican. I don't read political books written after Trump because it's all too close. I broke that for Birchers because I was looking for something Goldwater-adjacent after Nixonland and King Richard. It did an admirable job, but definitely the lesser of the three.