Until March, 2009 he was a Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future where he wrote for their blog about the failures of conservative governance. He is a former writer for The Village Voice and The New Republic and the author of numerous articles in other publications. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. "Rick" Perlstein (born 1969) is an American historian and journalist. Stormer and his wife, Elizabeth, had one daughter and four grandchildren.Eric S. “To accomplish this, conservative Americans must make their voices heard in the political parties.” “A program for victory over communism cannot be achieved until Americans elect a President and a Congress with the will to win and the courage to ‘cleanse’ the policy-making agencies of communist influence,” he advised readers in 1964. He would recall growing increasingly frustrated with mainstream politicians and by the early 1960s leaving his job as an electronics magazine editor to “begin an intensive study of communism.” He was born in Altoona, Penn., attended Pennsylvania State University and San Jose State University, and served as an editor and historian in the Air Force during the Korean War. For years, he ran weekly Bible study sessions for Missouri state legislators. He also wrote occasional updates to “None Dare Call It Treason” and completed other works that alleged the country was threatened by its own institutions, including “None Dare Call It Education” and “Betrayed By the Bench,” about the judicial system. He eventually became pastor of the Heritage Baptist Church in Florissant, Mo., and president of the Missouri Assn. In 1965, Stormer had a religious reawakening. “He has interpreted many of the facets of the American scene both domestically and externally along the lines of a sincere conservative,” according to the report. The bureau’s standard reply was to decline comment, while an internal review noted that Stormer was a member of the far-right John Birch Society and that “None Dare Call It Treason” was “extreme” in some ways, although not an “extremist document.”
“None Dare Call It Treason” alarmed some readers enough to contact the FBI and ask whether a communist takeover was indeed imminent. “In some areas copies disappeared from bookstore shelves as fast as murder mysteries.” “At rallies they were handed out like party favors,” Rick Perlstein wrote of the conservative books in his prize-winning history “Before the Storm,” published in 2001.
Goldwater was easily defeated by the Democratic incumbent, Lyndon Johnson, but the success of “None Dare Call it Treason” and other books signaled a thriving political network that became increasingly powerful over the following decades.
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