Conservative at the core : a new history of American conservatism / Allan J. Lichtman.
| Author/creator | Lichtman, Allan J. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2025 |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | ix, 364 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Acknowledgments -- Dispensable versus core conservative values -- Traditional Christian values -- Free enterprise -- Limited government -- Fiscal responsibility -- States' rights -- Personal morality and responsibility -- Law and order -- Strict construction -- U.S. sovereignty -- Religion, race, immigrants, and sex -- Donald Trump and conservativism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Allan J. Lichtman investigates the foundations and history of conservative thought to identify and reveal the central crisis that lies at the heart of conservative principles and today's politics. He explores a century of American conservative politics to demonstrate that professed conservative principles--free enterprise, limited government, fiscal responsibility, states' rights, law and order, personal morality, and American sovereignty--are dispensable notions solely for public appeal. Instead, conservatives have only consistently advanced their version of traditional Christian values and support for private (not free) enterprise. Lichtman provides a sweeping history of the American conservative movement from the end of World War I to the present day. He draws on leaders like Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Donald J. Trump, and the conservative Democrats responsible for Jim Crow discrimination in the South. Contrary to those who have described Trump as a deviation from professed core principles, Conservative at the Core ultimately argues that Trump and his allies represent the culmination of the American conservative tradition, consistently upholding and fulfilling conservative nationalist values."--from the inside front and back flaps. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-339) and index. |
| Language | In English. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780268210281 |
| LCCN | 2025934548 |
| ISBN | 9780268210304 |
| ISBN | 0268210306 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | adobe pdf |
| ISBN | epub |
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