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The first comprehensive guide to the people, ideas, publications, organizations,and events that shaped American conservatism
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia
by Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Since its humble beginnings in the years following World War II, conservatism in America has become almost as powerful and influential as the liberalism it arose to challenge. With success, however, has come a crisis of identity, evidenced by the increasing (often acrimonious) debates between neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, libertarians, and those who simply call themselves "conservatives." One reason for this crisis may be a lack of historical knowledge and perspective. American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia fills this gap in understanding by providing in-depth information and insight on the persons, schools, concepts, organizations, events, publications, and other topics of major importance to the conservative movement from World War II to the present.
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More than fifteen years in the making (which accounts for the peculiarity of having several deceased persons among its 200-plus contributors), American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia includes 626 entries, typically of 750 to 2,500 words in length. Among the people and topics covered:
- Social and political issues from abortion to judicial activism to welfare
- Thinkers from Lord Acton to Friedrich von Hayek to Walter Williams
- Politicians from John Adams to Ronald Reagan to John Witherspoon
- Magazines and journals from The American Mercury to Human Events to National Review to The Weekly Standard
- Books from The Conscience of a Conservative to The Road to Serfdom to Witness
- Historical events from the American Revolution to the New Deal to the Vietnam War
- Social-political philosophies from agrarianism to states' rights to totalitarianism
- Ideas and concepts from academic freedom to relativism to tradition
- Organizations from the America First Committee to the Philadelphia Society to Young Americans for Freedom
- and much more!
At the end of every entry is a list of articles and books for further reading, plus a list of other entries that touch on the topic at hand.
Rather than taking sides in the debate over what is and is not authentic conservatism, the editors take for granted a rather broad meaning of conservatism. "The intent of this volume," they explain, "is to provide coverage of those matters of importance to each of the major schools of postwar conservative thought and to do so as evenhandedly as possible." Which is not to say that the reader will not encounter specific points of view. Far from it: the editors have made sure that a variety of "conservatisms" are present and accounted for: classical-liberal, religious, populist, aristocratic, Straussian, traditionalist, libertarian, neoconservative, paleoconservative, fusionist, agrarian, industrialist, Southern, Northern, and so on. But each article is accurate and fair in its treatment of its subject, even if that subject is approached from a perspective with which not all conservatives would agree.
Among the 200-plus contributors to this extraordinary volume:
- Iconic patriarchs of the conservative movement, among them Russell Kirk, M. E. Bradford, Gerhart Niemeyer, Stephen J. Tonsor, Peter Stanlis, and Murray Rothbard
- Celebrated scholars such as George H. Nash, Peter Augustine Lawler, Allan Carlson, Russell Hittinger, Wilfred McClay, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, George W. Carey, and Paul Gottfried
- Well-known authors, including George Weigel, Lee Edwards, Richard Brookhiser, and Gregory Wolfe
- Influential movement activists and leaders such as and Llewellyn Rockwell
The most comprehensive work of its kind, American Conservatism: An Encylopedia will be of value to all students, journalists, academics, and lay readers interested in what has arguably been the most important intellectual movement of the last fifty years. And, for conservatives of any kind who want to understand where their movement came from -- and where it should be going -- this magnificent book is quite simply indispensable.
A very partial listing of the 626 entries:
Abortion * academic freedom * Acton Institute * Adams, Henry * Adams, John * affirmative action * agrarianism * America First Committee * American Conservative * American Conservative Union * American Enterprise Institute * American Mercury * American Revolution * American Spectator * anticommunism * Anti-Federalists * arms control * Austrian school of economics * Babbitt, Irving * Bartley, Robert L. * Belloc, Hillaire * Bennett, William J. * Berger, Raoul * Bill of Rights * Blackwell, Morton * Bloom, Allan * Bookman * Bork, Robert H. * Bozell, L. Brent * Bradford, M. E. * Bradley Foundation * Brown v. Board of Education * Brownson, Orestes A. * Buchanan, Patrick J. * Buckley, William F., Jr. * bureaucracy * Burke, Edmund * Burnham, James * Bush, George W. * Calhoun, John C. * capital punishment * capitalism * Carlson, Allan * Cato Institute * centralization * Chambers, Whittaker * Chesterton, G. K. * Chodorov, Frank * Chronicles * church and state * City Journal * civil rights * Civil War * Claremont Institute * Clinton, William J., impeachment of * Cold War * Cold War revisionism * Colson, Charles W. * Commentary * common law * Conquest, Robert * Conscience of a Conservative, The * conservatism * Conservatism in America * Conservative Book Club * Conservative Mind, The * Conservative Party of New York * Constitution, interpretations of * constitutionalism * containment * Coolidge, Calvin * Crisis * culture wars * Dartmouth Review * Davidson, Donald G. * Davis, Jefferson * Dawson, Christopher * Declaration of Independence * democracy * Democratic Party * diversity * Dobson, James C. * D'Souza, Dinesh * due process * Eagle Forum * education, public * Eliot, T.S. * Enlightenment * enterprise zones * entitlements * environmentalism * equal rights amendment * equality * Ethics and Public Policy Center * Evans, M. Stanton * Falwell, Jerry * Family Research Council * family * farm policy * federalism * Federalist, The * Federalist Society * feminism * Feulner, Edwin J., Jr. * First Things * Fleming, Thomas * Flynn, John T. * Foundation for Economic Education * foundations, conservative * Free Congress Foundation * free trade * Freeman * French Revolution * Friedman, Milton * fusionism * Garrett, Garet * Gilder, George * Gingrich, Newt * God and Man at Yale * God that Failed, The * gold standard * Goldwater, Barry * Great Books programs * Grove City College * Hayek, Friedrich A. von * Hazlitt, Henry * Helms, Jesse * Heritage Foundation * Hillsdale College * Hiss-Chambers trial * historicism * homeschooling * Hoover Institution * Horowitz, David * Hudson Institute * Human Events * Human Life Review * Hyde, Henry * Ideas Have Consequences * ideology * I'll Take My Stand * immigration * incorporation doctrine * Independent Institute * individualism * intelligent design theory * Intercollegiate Studies Institute * Iraq War * Jaffa, Harry V. * Jaki, Stanley L. * Jefferson, Thomas * Jewish conservatives * John Birch Society * John Paul II, Pope * judicial activism * Kendall, Willmoore * Keynesian economics * Kilpatrick, James J. * Kirk, Russell * Kristol, Irving * Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von * Laffer Curve * law and order * Lewis, C.S. * liberalism * liberalism, classical * liberation theology * libertarianism * liberty * Liberty Fund * Limbaugh, Rush * Lindbergh, Charles A. * localism * Luce, Clare Boothe * managerial revolution * Manhattan Institute * Marxism * Mayflower Compact * McCarthy, Joseph R. * McCarthyism * McCormick, Colonel Robert R. * media, conservative * Meese, Edwin, III * Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) * Meyer, Frank S. * Mises, Ludwig von * Mises, Ludwig von, Institute * Missile Defense, National * Modern Age * modernity and postmodernity * monetarist economics * moral imagination * Moral Majority * movement conservatism * Murray, Charles * National Association of Scholars * National Review * National Rifle Association * natural law * neoconservatism * New Deal * Newman, John Henry * New Right * nihilism * Nixon, Richard M. * Nock, Albert Jay * Oakeshott, Michael * O'Connor, Flannery * Old Right * Olin Foundation * Orwell, George * paleoconservatism * Pegler, Westbrook * Philadelphia Society * Phillips, Howard * Podhoretz, Norman * political action committees * populism * pornography * poverty * prejudice * privatization * progress * progressivism * property rights, private * protectionism * public choice economics * Public Interest * quotas * Radio Free Europe * Rand, Ayn * Randolph, John (of Roanoke) * Reagan Democrats * Reagan Doctrine * Reagan, Ronald * Reason * Red Scare * Regnery, Henry * Regnery Publishing * regulation * Rehnquist, William H. * relativism * Republican Party * right-to-work movement * Road to Serfdom, The * Robertson, Pat * Rockefeller Republicans * Rockford Institute * Roman Catholicism * Roosevelt, Theodore * Röpke, Wilhelm * Rosenberg case * Rothbard, Murray * rule of law * Rusher, William A. * Scaife Foundations * Scalia, Antonin * Schaeffer, Francis August * Schlafly, Phyllis * Schumpeter, Joseph A. * science and scientism * Scopes trial * separation of powers * Sewanee Review * Sheen, Fulton J. * Smith, Adam * social Darwinism * socialism * sociobiology * Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr * Southern Agrarians * Southern conservatism * Southern Partisan * Sowell, Thomas * speech, freedom of * states' rights * Strauss, Leo * supply-side economics * Supreme Court * Taft, Robert A. * Taft-Hartley Act * Tate, Allen * Taylor, John (of Caroline) * Terror, War on * Thatcher, Margaret * therapeutic state * think tanks, conservative * Thomas, Clarence * Thurmond, Strom * Tocqueville, Alexis de * totalitarianism * tradition * Tyrrell, R. Emmett, Jr. * unionism * United Nations * University Bookman * Vietnam War * Viguerie, Richard * Wall Street Journal * Washington, George * Washington Times * Weaver, Richard M., Jr. * Weekly Standard * welfare policy * welfare state * Weyrich, Paul M. * Will, George F. * Williams, Walter E. * Witness * Wolfe, Tom * Young America's Foundation * Young Americans for Freedom * Zoll, Donald Atwell
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