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Article: Re: us.(The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times)(Book review)
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- National Review
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- January 30, 2006
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The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times, by Jeffrey Hart (ISI, 394 pp., $28)
FIFTY years ago last autumn, William F. Buckley Jr. launched a "journal of opinion" for "radical conservatives." National Review, he announced in its opening issue, stood "athwart history, yelling Stop." Fifty years later, his daring venture had not only defied the tides of history but had altered their course.
How did this happen? Like many another little magazine, National Review could easily have foundered on the shoals of ideological disaster. It could have become a voice of carping irrelevance, the plaything of an isolated sect. Instead, ...