McGirr

This book was difficult to get through for me due to a lack of interest in post 1950s US and conservatives, but upon finishing it I was left with a few questions.  McGirr presents anti-communism sentiments as one of the rallying factors behind the movement in Orange County.  I'm wondering how unique this was in the most heated decade of the Cold War.  Wasn't almost everyone in America anti-communist at this time? Why was Orange County different? How many other counties were there groups of extreme capitalists where a conservative movement did not occur?  Additionally, McGirr fails to really delve into the beliefs and goals of this conservative movement until well over halfway through the work.  When I sit down to read a book on a conservative movement, it would have been helpful to know what the movement was really about before this point.