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Conservatism's Triumph |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Lee Edwards |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,675 Words, 17,400 Characters |
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THE AGE OF REAGAN
The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964--1980
Steven F. Hayward
Rosedale, Calif.: Prima Publishing, 2001
811 pp., $35.00
In 1950, American conservatism played so insignificant a role in the intellectual and political life of the nation that the literary critic Lionel Trilling wrote that "liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition." Conservatism, he said dismissively, expresses itself "in irritable mental gestures which seem to resemble ideas."
And yet in the following decade, Russell Kirk published his seminal work The Conservative Mind, William F. Buckley Jr. launched his defiantly conservative journal National Review, and Sen. Barry Goldwater wrote his best-selling political manifesto The Conscience of a Conservative...
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...entury, and prepared the ground of political debate on which American politics is still being conducted today." That is why the closing decades of the last century can properly be called the "age of Reagan." Any reasonable reader would agree that the author has made a compelling case for this assertion in volume one of the best historical biography yet written about our fourtieth president. vbcrlf
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