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Article: Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement
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- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
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- October 1, 2008
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Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement. Edited by Peter Schweizer and Wynton C. Hall. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007; pp i + 169. $30.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.
Since the movement's mid-century beginnings, intraconservative quarrels have featured a substantial introspective component. "New conservatism" in the 1950s, Goldwaterism in the 1960s, the "New Right" in the 1970s, the "conservative crack-up" under Reagan in the 1980s, and the Republican Revolution of the 1990s all prompted boisterous rows over the meaning of conservatism. Their latest once-a-decade quarrel is intensified by a "conservative" president doing controversial work, such as fighting a ...