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ARC Mss 79
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Title: W.S. McBirnie pamphlets
Identifier/Call Number: ARC Mss 79
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.21 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Date (inclusive): 1970s-1980s
Abstract: The W.S. McBirnie Collection consists of 51 pamphlets written by conservative radio host and theologian William Steuart McBirnie
during the 1970s and 1980s.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], W.S. McBirnie pamphlets, ARC Mss 79. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2016.
Processed by Wyatt Young, 2016.
The W.S. McBirnie Collection consists of 51 pamphlets written by conservative radio host and theologian William Steuart McBirnie
during the 1970s and 1980s. On his radio program “Voice of Americanism,” McBirnie was known for being an ardent opponent of
liberalism and communism, and these views carried over into his self-published pamphlets on the dangers these issues presented
to the American public. McBirnie founded the Church of Glendale in 1961 as well as the California Graduate School of Theology
in 1968, offering doctoral degrees to working pastors, which some critiques found to be quite controversial at the time. Topics
included in the pamphlets of the W.S. McBirnie collection include election predictions, the energy crisis of the 1970’s, fluoridation
dangers, challenges to American ideals of freedom, Soviet threats, and Big Brother. This collection is unique in its scope
and content for providing a case study into the mind and views of a dynamic American personality during the rise of neoconservatism
in the United States during the 1970’s and 1980’s.