THE SUPERFLUOUS MEN
Conservative Critics of American Culture, 1900-1945
Edited with a new introduction by Robert M. Crunden
List Item No. 275
ISBN: 1-882926-30-7 (cloth)
453 pages (includes Index, Bibliographical Essay)
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The most neglected period in the history of American conservatism has been the first half of the twentieth century. Yet it was a period that laid the intellectual groundwork for many of the ideas central to political and social theory today: the necessity for limited government, the primacy of private property, the need for economic decentralization, and the value of America's tradition of federalism. This volume brings together a representative sample of conservative thinking during this period.
What They're Saying...
"You can't understand the history of American thought without this critically important volume."
— John Podhoretz
"Here is the first generation of American conservative intellectuals, in all their uncomfortable glory: prickly, quirky,
unclubbably aristocratic and as individual as the idiosyncratic philosophies they espoused. Compassionate conservatives they
most definitely weren't, and their angry anti-modernism has not yet lost its power to startle and provoke.
For those short-sighted youngsters who think conservatism started with Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater—or even Bill Buckley—this
admirably edited collection will supply a swift kick in the preconceptions."
— Terry Teachout
Contributors Include:
- Irving Babbitt
- Ralph Adams Cram
- Donald Davidson
- Walter Lippmann
- H. L. Mencken
- Paul Elmer More
- Albert Jay Nock
- Frank Lawrence Owsley
- John Crowe Ransom
- George Santayana
- Allen Tate
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