Jeff Roche’s The Conservative Frontier is a quietly convincing account of how the “cowboy conservatism” of West Texas, with its evangelical anti-intellectualism and white nationalist leanings, was ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Foreword / David Farber -- Introduction / Jeff Roche -- 1. The Western Hero in Politics: Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and the Rise ...

In this expansive chronicle of West Texas politics, historian Roche (The Conservative Sixties) makes the case that the modern Republican party’s “radical” rightward turn owes a lot to that region’s ...

James J. "Jeff" Roche, 84, of Mansfield died on Friday, Dec. 5, at the VA Medical Center in Brockton. He was the husband of Elizabeth A. (Egner) Roche, whom he married in New York City in 1967. The ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jeff Roche is an Associate Professor for the History Department in the College of Wooster with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Forum. The ...