What is American conservative thought and what are the unique qualities that distinguish it from other schools of thought? This volume, by providing a comprehensive definition, overcomes a major stumbling block to the understanding and evaluation of this significant intellectual movement. Although during the post-war period there has been a renaissance of self-styled conservative writing and thought, and a number of scholarly works have focused on conservatism offering valuable information on both the history and development of the movement, author Melvin Thorne maintains that none has successfully defined or distinguished contemporary American conservatism from the ideas of thinkers of other persuasions. Without a definition of the fundamentals of American conservative thought, conservative positions on authority, freedom, government, community, and tradition will continue to resist interpretation and basic theoretical and practical questions must remain unanswered. Thorne's study constructs a conceptual framework for understanding the fundamental nature and scope of conservativism. Chapter 1 criticizes previous definitions that focus on a single idea as a starting point, or that propound lists of common elements, or that reason from sociopsychological or historical perspectives. Rejecting these definitions, Thorne posits the two fundamental ideas which in tandem form the core of contemporary American conservative thought: a certain view of human nature, the subject of Chapter 2, and a certain conception of an objective moral order, discussed in Chapter 3. The influence of the core ideas on the rest of conservative thought is examined in the remaining five chapters, which consider authority, freedom, government and economy, community, and change and tradition. This intellectually rigorous yet highly readable work will be of great importance to scholars, students, and the informed generalist as it provides the most comprehensive view of conservativism to date.

The Reversion plucks Samuel from a dying world and drops him into another, a decaying desert wasteland of darkness and peril. With newcomers Jack and Lindsay, Samuel, begins his quest for redemption and a final confrontation with the forces behind the Reversion, trusting his fate to the Law of Three.

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The American world of 1918 was certainly ready for farce. America had just been through its First World War; more deadly, it would lose many thousands to the Great Flu Pandemic 1919. And so it welcomed "Biltmore Oswald: The Diary of a Hapless Recruit" and "Out o' Luck: Biltmore Oswald Very Much at Sea," its sequel, published by Fredrick Stokes and Company. While editor he also published his poetry, which, like Edgar Allan Poe, he considered his true calling.

The American world of 1918 was certainly ready for farce. America had just been through its First World War; more deadly, it would lose many thousands to the Great Flu Pandemic 1919. And so it welcomed "Biltmore Oswald: The Diary of a Hapless Recruit" and "Out o' Luck: Biltmore Oswald Very Much at Sea," its sequel, published by Fredrick Stokes and Company. While editor he also published his poetry, which, like Edgar Allan Poe, he considered his true calling.