What's Fair on the Air?

*What’s Fair on the Air?* explores the colorful world of right-wing broadcasters like H.L.

Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis, who promoted anticommunism, religion, and free-market ideas during the Cold War. Heather Hendershot details how these figures were ultimately sidelined by the IRS, FCC's Fairness Doctrine, and a more mainstream conservative movement, yet their ideologies influenced later phenomena like Reaganism, the Moral Majority, and Fox News.

The book draws on archival research to analyze the legal, political, and cultural struggles over the airwaves.