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Prophet of the Heartland |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Willmoore Kendall's The Conservative Affirmation |
| Author: Samuel T. Francis |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 3,263 Words, 20,371 Characters |
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The conservative movement in the United States has come a long way, politically and intellectually, since the death of Willmoore Kendall in 1967. Although the successes of conservatism could not easily have been predicted in the early 1960s when Kendall's thought flourished, they would not have surprised him, for it was the essence of his political thought that the American people were profoundly committed to conservative principles and deeply hostile to liberalism and ideological experimentation with their lives and government. On the other hand, certain recent trends in conservative thought and politics--a seeming preoccupation with "respectability" and "credibility," and an inclination to dilute the expression of its commitments in return for acceptance by the establishment--would sur...
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... counterrevolution against it, but his untimely death at the age of 58 prevented him from developing such a framework on a systematic basis. It is perhaps the greatest tragedy of American conservative thought in the 1950s and 1960s that he did not live to complete his work and to witness and comment upon the incipient resurgence of the heartland that underlies the conservatism of the 1980s.
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