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While historians such as Patrick Allitt (born 1956) and political theorists such as Russell Kirk (1918–1994) assert that conservative principles have played a major role in U.S. politics and culture since 1776, they also argue that an organized conservative movement with beliefs that differ from those of other American political parties did ...
The Conservative Mind is a book by American conservative philosopher Russell Kirk. It was first published in 1953 as Kirk's doctoral dissertation and has since gone into seven editions, the later ones with the subtitle From Burke to Eliot. It traces the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving special ...
Editorial: 'Conservative' values we can all unite behind: personal integrity; transparency; responsible spending; and the sanctity of the family.
Smant, Kevin J. Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement (2002) (ISBN 1882926722) Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover (1994) particularly 1933–64; Tanenhaus, Sam. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) (ISBN 978-0375751455)
This helps explain the neverending identity crisis that shapes so much of the culture of American conservatives, which is engaged in constant arguments about what it means to be a true ...
The Conservative Mind (1953) The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) A Choice Not an Echo (1964) Losing Ground (1984) A Conflict of Visions (1987) The Closing of the American Mind (1987) The Bell Curve (1994) The Revolt of the Elites (1995) The Death of the West (2001) The Blank Slate (2002) Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005) Hillbilly ...
The book has received mixed reviews. Richard Aldous in The Wall Street Journal praised it, calling it "one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read…the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas”. [4]
The German term for value conservatism, "Wertkonservatismus", was first coined in 1975 by Social Democratic politician Erhard Eppler in his book Ende oder Wende ("End or Turn"). He described policies that were intended to preserve nature, the human community and the dignity of the individual as value conservative. [ 1 ]