The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

by PAllitt (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $24.56

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  Paperback
  2010

  $41.02

  Traces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster to William F Buckley, Jr and Irving Kristol. The argues that conservatism has assumed a variety of forms, because it has been chiefly reactive, responding to perceived threats and challenges at different moments in the nation's history.