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Neoconservatism is the movement that has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatism in our time. And if neoconservatism can be said to have a father or an architect, that person is Irving Kristol. Neoconservatism is the most comprehensive selection of Kristol's influential writings on politics and economics, as well as the best of his now-famous essays on society, religion, culture, literature, education, and...

Examines the history of American conservatism from the Revolutionary War through the twentieth century, exploring the ideas and people who have influenced conservative though and its role in the United States.

When Russell Kirk published his seminal 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, the American Right was adrift. Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal at home and radical ideologies and conflict abroad, conservatism seemed beaten and broken in the postwar world. Although luminaries such as William F. Buckley, Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin all published important works in the early 1950s, none of their writings would match the...

"In this important book, Jerome Himmelstein offers a new interpretation of the growth of conservatism in American politics. Tracing the New Right of the 1970s and 1980s back to the Old Right of the 1950s, Himmelstein provides an interpretive map of the political landscape over those decades, showing how conservatives ascended to power by reconstructing their ideology and building an independent movement. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Overview: Between 1944 and 1953, a power struggle emerged between New York governor Thomas Dewey and U.S. senator Robert Taft of Ohio that threatened to split the Republican Party. In The Roots of Modern Conservatism, Michael Bowen reveals how this two-man battle for control of the GOP--and the Republican presidential nomination--escalated into a divide of ideology that ultimately determined the party's political identity. Initially, Bowen argues,...

"Right Face imparts the story of how the American conservative movement in the two decades following World War II managed to move from obscurity to the center stage of national politics. Based on extensive archival sources, the book provides an analysis of the movement's intellectual and organizational development. It recounts the often bitter struggle to define the meaning of conservatism in modern America, the search for influential national outlets,...

A story of the life and family of Russell Kirk who "defined conservative political thought for the post-World War II era."--Jacket.

"According to Steele, the liberalism that grew out of the 1960s had as its first and all-consuming goal the expiation of American guilt rather than the careful development of true equality between the races ... In four densely argued essays, Steele takes on the familiar questions of affirmative action, multiculturalism, diversity, Afro-centrism, group preferences, victimization -- and what he deems to be the atavistic powers of race, ethnicity, and...