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âA wonderful book.â âFred Barnes
âReserves a special place for Tucker in the pantheon of political authors.â âNational Review Online
âMany readers resent the narrowness standard histories offer. They will welcome Conservative Heroes, which so thoughtfully draws out the full picture.â âAmity Shlaes
âA missing history of conservatism.â âThe American Conservative
âA very accessible account of what American conservatism is, and has done.â âChronicles
Conservatism in America, as one early-twentieth-century politician said, is âas old as the Republic itself.â But what are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement?
Author Garland S. Tucker III tells the story in this lively look at fourteen champions of conservative thoughtâsome well known, others hardly remembered at all. Taking readers on an exciting tour from the American Founding to the modern era, Tucker traces the development of conservatismâs basic tenets and shows how leaders put principle into action (some more successfully than others).
Conservative Heroes offers brief but penetrating profiles of:
- The Founders who agreed on the two primary purposes of governmentâbut differed on how best to achieve the balance between them
- The pair of nineteenth-century congressional leaders who fought to preserve the founding vision of a limited national government
- The towering statesman whose defense of slavery has obscured his considerable contributions to American constitutional history
- The last Democratic president to advance conservative principles
- The president and treasury secretary who together reduced taxes and the size of the federal governmentâand sparked an economic boom
- The forgotten leaders, both Democrats, who spearheaded the conservative challenge to FDRâs New Deal
- The man who revived the GOP as the conservative party
- The three driving forces behind the ascent of modern conservatism
Here is the story of American conservatism in fourteen livesâa story we need to understand to tackle the challenges we face today.
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