American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia

by Bruce Frohnen (Editor), Jeremy Beer (Editor), Jeffery O. Nelson (Editor)

American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the last half century. More than a decade in the makingand more than half a million words in length?this informative and entertaining encyclopedia contains substantive entries of up to two thousand words on those persons, events, organizations, and concepts of major importance to postwar American conservatism. Its contributors include iconic patriarchs of the conservative and libertarian movements, including Russell Kirk, M. E. Bradford, Gerhart Niemeyer, Stephen J. Tonsor, Peter Stanlis, and Murray Rothbard; celebrated scholars such as George H. Nash, Peter Augustine Lawler, Allan Carlson, Daniel J. Mahoney, Wilfred McClay, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, George W. Carey, and Paul Gottfried; well-known authors, including George Weigel, Lee Edwards, Richard Brookhiser, and Gregory Wolfe; and influential movement activists and leaders such as M. Stanton Evans, Morton Blackwell, Leonard Liggio, and Llewellyn Rockwell. Ranging from abortion to Zoll, Donald Atwell, and written from viewpoints as various as those which have informed the postwar conservative movement itself, the encyclopedia's more than 600 entries will orient readers of all kinds to the people and ideas that have given shape to contemporary American conservatism. This long-awaited volume is not to be missed.

Genres: Politics, Reference, History, Political Science, Nonfiction

1000 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Professor Bruce Frohnen joined the Ohio Northern University College of Law in 2008 as visiting associate professor of law and was named associate professor of law in 2010. Prior to joining the faculty, he served as a Visiting Scholar with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a Legislative Aide to United States Senator Spencer Abraham, and a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc. His co-edited volume American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia was the subject of a front page article in the New York Times. His two most recent volumes, The American Nation: Primary Sources and Rethinking Rights (edited with Kenneth Grasso) were named Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. His articles have appeared in journals including the George Washington Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. His research interests focus on the nature, development, and prospects for constitutionalism and human rights given changing views regarding the nature of human community and the person. He holds a JD from the Emory University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.

Reviews

[The American Conservative]

'This book launch had the feel of a wake—an Irish wake for some, not so much for others—attended by Montagues and Capulets. Yet an appropriate spirit it was, for the book contains something of Nash’s genteel ambiguity and Lukacs’s unsparing honesty, as well as Decter’s herpetological resolve. This is all to the good. American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia doesn’t truck in the witless triumphalism that characterizes so much of the Right. Nor does it present any feigned unity. Instead, editors Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson—professor at Ave Maria law school and editor in chief and publisher of ISI Books, respectively—let all the many schools of thought within American conservatism (and libertarianism, too) have their own say. Entries on divisive figures are here given, as a general rule, to sympathetic profilers, which is the only way a book like this could have been assembled without becoming a polemic in its own right. “The reader will not get very far in this volume before beginning to notice the tensions and outright contradictions that exist and have exited among conservatives—on matters of principle no less than on matters of policy,” the editors warn.'

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