In this timely new book, the leading authority on the history of American conservatism examines the origins and development of modern American conservatism and assesses its prospects for the years ahead.
George H. Nash is an American historian and interpreter of American conservatism. He is a biographer of Herbert Hoover. He is best known for The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, which first appeared in 1976 and has been twice revised and expanded.
"George H. Nash’s Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, in either its original (1976) or later expanded edition (1996), would have assured him an honored place as a scholar, even if he had never embarked on his exhaustive three-volume biography of Herbert Hoover. His new anthology treats in further detail a movement that Nash has been analyzing since his graduate school days at Harvard in the early 1970s. Even for those who are familiar with his subject, there is much in these essays that is new and insightful."