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Article: The American conservative movement: the philosophical founders.
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- National Review
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- June 19, 1987
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The American Conservative Movement: The Philosophical Founders
JUST OUT is The American ConservativeMovement: The Philosophical Founders (Regnery Books, 950 North Shore Drive, Lake Bluff, Ill. 60044, and 1130 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; $18.95), the late Senator John P. East's only, posthumously published, book, the page proofs of which the senator had just finished correcting at the time of his death, on June 29, 1986. Typically, my reaction to the prospect of reviewing a book of this nature written (or "written') by a practicing politician resembles the initial one of Flannery O'Connor to the proposal, made her by the Sister Superior of Our ...