Right Thinking: Conservative Common Sense Through the Ages

by James D. Hornfischer

Right Thinking is a provocative, illuminating field guide to twenty-five centuries of conservative wisdom. By his careful selection, James D. Hornfischer not only gathers the scattered apples of conservative thought from all periods of human history, but also helps us to shape and define the essence of conservatism itself.
Here, in one convenient volume, are the best and most penetrating words of more than 130 famous (and infamous) conservatives, including Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, George Will, Ayn Rand, Benjamin Franklin, T.S. Eliot, St. Augustine, George Bernard Shaw, Aesop, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson.

Genres: Politics

156 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

James D. Hornfischer was an American literary agent, author, and naval historian.
A one-time book editor at the publishing company HarperCollins in New York, Hornfischer was later president of Hornfischer Literary Management, a literary agency in Austin, Texas.

He wrote for "Smithsonian", "The Wall Street Journal", and other periodicals. He was a board member of the Naval Historical Foundation.

On 18 May 2021, he was awarded the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award by the Director of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

On 2 June 2021, he died from glioblastoma (cancer of the brain) Austin, Texas, at age 55.

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Right Thinking: Conservative Common Sense Through the Ages (1996)