Conservatives Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

Name: Conservatives Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History
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ISBN: 9780300164183

ISBN-10: 0300164181

ISBN-13: 9780300164183

Edition: 2010

Authors: Patrick Allitt

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This lively book traces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Daniel Webster, through Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Herbert Hoover, to William F. Buckley, Jr, Ronald Reagan, and William Kristol. Conservatism has assumed a variety of forms, historian Patrick Allitt argues, because it has been chiefly reactive, responding to perceived threats and challenges at different moments in the nation's history. While few Americans described themselves as conservatives before the 1930s, certain groups, beginning with the Federalists in the 1790s, can reasonably be thought of in that way. The book discusses changing ideas about what ought to be…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English