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Title: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George H. Nash ISBN: 1-882926-20-X Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Inst Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding and a great start
Comment: I have just began to read this book. It is a wealth of information about how a lot of conservative thoughts came to be, in particular after 1945. If you are interested in learning the who's and why's of conservativism this is a great book to start reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough and Thought-Provoking
Comment: As someone who has come to conservatism at the end of the twentieth century, this book opened to me my own political prehistory, the thinking underlying conservative ideas. To some extent, it forced me to decide what kind of conservative I am.
The book is not strictly chronological in its discussion. Nash begins with one chapter apiece on each of the three principal strands of American conservatism post World War II: libertarianism, traditionalism, and anti-communism. Each strand is discussed chronologically and in terms of its principal proponents, leading works, publications, organizations, roots and, of course, theory.
Subsequent chapters discuss the efforts of these three groups to cooperate and to consolidate, the efforts to find specifically American roots for conservative ideas, and the growth of the conservative movement in the thirty years or so following 1945. An Epilogue written for the 1996 edition discusses subsequent changes in American conservatism, including neoconservatism and the religious right.
The title correctly identifies the subject matter of the book -- it is a history of an intellectual movement, and only secondarily a political history. Certain watershed events in contemporary conservatism (the McCarthy investigations, the election campaign of Barry Goldwater, and similar) are touched upon, but principally as phenomena to which conservatives react or by which they are shaped.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Discover your intellectual roots!
Comment: I'd heard Nash's book referred to many times but avoided reading it because I thought I knew the modern history of conservative thought fairly well. I was wrong. Just as attending law school taught me I didn't know nearly as much about the Constitution as I thought I did, reading Nash taught me I didn't know nearly as much about 20th century conservatism as I'd believed. If you're a conservative, it's thrilling to watch the movement grow from a tiny group with little status into a powerful force capable of electing a president. It's also very practical because you can see the supporting structures of a movement develop through alternative institutions and endowed professor's chairs. Become a total conservative wonk-geek who will understand most of the oblique references you've read in National Review. Read this book.
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Title: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk ISBN: 0895261715 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol, Arving Kristol ISBN: 1566632285 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.90 |
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Title: The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to Culture Wars by Mark Gerson ISBN: 1568331002 Publisher: Madison Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek ISBN: 0226320618 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.48 |
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Title: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein ISBN: 0809028581 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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