Chapter 1: The Nemesis of Democracy
Chapter 2: Roads Not Taken
Chapter 3: Prophets, Proselytizers, and Pundits
Chapter 4: Getting to Know (and to Like) the People
Chapter 5: Plunging Into Politics
Chapter 6: Revolution . . .
Chapter 7: . . . And Its Discontents
Chapter 8: Between Principles and Politics
Gregory L. Schneider is associate professor of history at Emporia State University.
Gregory L. Schneider has written an astute and absorbing
contribution to the growing historical scholarship on American
conservatism. In this well documented study, he demonstrates that
modern conservatism has not been a static phenomenon but a supple,
variegated, and resilient influence in American politics.
*George H. Nash, author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement
in America Since 1945*
Schneider takes a broad approach, considering conservatism a
'protean' movement that eludes easy definition, and succeeds in
illustrating his assertion that this fluidity has allowed
conservatism to flourish for an entire century. Students of
political history will find a valuable perspective in this
study.
*Publishers Weekly*
Schneider . . . does a spirited job of walking through the standard
post-Buckley history, but with a careful emphasis on what was new
about its traditionalism, what was tossed away in its conservatism,
what was statist in its supposed defenses of liberty.
*Reason*
Gregory L. Schneider offers a more thorough [account] in his new
survey, The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution
precisely because it is limited to the 20th century. . . .
Schneider's copious account of the post-war conservative movement
is superb.
*Claremont Review of Books*
Gregory L. Schneider has already established a reputation as one of
the preeminent historians of American conservatism. Steeped in a
deep appreciation for the intellectual diversity of American
conservatism and the long and arduous path that led conservatives
from relative obscurity to political power, The Conservative
Century will unquestionably assume a position next to George Nash's
Conservative Intellectual Movement in America as one of the most
insightful books on the subject.
*Marc A. Eisner, Henry Merritt Wriston Chair in Public Policy,
Wesleyan University*
Dispassionate, systematic, and accessible, Schneider makes an
important contribution that will be particularly useful as an
introduction for students unfamiliar with one of the central story
lines of twentieth-century American politics.
*Journal of American History*
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