![]() ![]() In 1990, Brennan joined the History faculty at then Southwest Texas State University. Her most recent monograph, Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady, (2011) appeared as part of the Modern First Ladies Series published by the University Press of Kansas. Since then, she has focused on women's roles within conservatism in general and the anticommunist movement in particular. Her book, Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, (Colorado 2008) evolved from her curiosity about Joe McCarthy’s wife. Turning Right in the Sixties (UNC Press, 1995) evolved from her dissertation and examined the conservative "capture" of the GOP through the Goldwater campaign. ![]() Over the years, she has continued to investigate conservative politics in its various manifestations. Her dissertation on the development of conservatism in modern America was a natural outgrowth of her interest in how politics affects "normal" people. Brennan attended Edgecliff College of Xavier University for her undergraduate degree before moving onto received a Ph.D. Edgecliff College of Xavier Universityīorn and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mary C. Professor and Dean: College of Liberal Artsī.A. ![]()
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