An even-handed, comprehensive assessment of conservative thought in
America, from the Constitutional Convention to the present 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 conserved, and why.
Conservatives sometimes favored but at other times opposed a strong
central government, sometimes criticized free-market capitalism but
at other times supported it. Some denigrated democracy while others
championed it. Core elements, however, have connected thinkers in a
specifically American conservative tradition, in particular a
skepticism about human equality and fears for the survival of
civilization. Allitt brings the story of that tradition to the end
of the twentieth century, examining how conservatives rose to
dominance during the Cold War. Throughout the book he offers
original insights into the connections between the development of
conservatism and the larger history of the nation.
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