The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

An even-handed, comprehensive assessment of conservative thought in America, from the Constitutional Convention to the present.

"A perceptive, rigorously balanced, and richly panoramic account of conservative ideas and thinkers in American politics and culture since 1787. This is a welcome indeed, necessary book." —George H. Nash, author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945

This lively book traces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton, Joh...