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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute; 1 edition (November 2, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1935191659
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935191650
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4.0 out of 5 starsThoughtful essays on conservatism
By J. Davis on May 25, 2010
Format: Hardcover
One might not know it, especially if you listen to talk radio today, but there were brilliant conservative intellectuals in American history. Many of them are discussed in the book, including Wilmoore Kendall, Richard Weaver, Russell Kirk, and (gasp!) Herbert Hoover. Nash does a terrific job of explaining the philosophy of these men in relatively short essays. Nash is one of the few writers anywhere who will defend Herbert Hoover--give him credit for original thinking. Of course, Ronald Reagan is discussed. I highly recommend Reappraising The Right to any follower of politics, whether conservative or liberal.

My only criticism of the book is the chapter on the Coolidge-Hoover relationship, which seemed somewhat irrelevant to me and out of place in a book about ideas. I would have preferred to have a chapter on maybe James Burnham or someone else influential. Notwithstanding this flaw, it was still a terrific read.
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2.0 out of 5 starsDoesn't hold a candle to his magnum opus
By Terrence K. Nichols on August 26, 2010
Format: Hardcover
I am very sad to say that I am thoroughly disappointed in Reappraising the Right. But, it's only fair to point out that I read it right after finishing Nash's masterpiece, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America and, perhaps naively, presumed it would continue at the same scholarly and philosophical height.

The problem, for me, is that the "masterpiece", The Conservative Intellectual Movement, was a broad, objective and insightful history of the conservative movement in America from 1945 to 1976, with ostensibly no axe to grind; whereas, the current book is merely a selection of Nash's essays from 1987 to 2009. Unfortunately, essays, because of their inherent concision are poor media to convey ideational range -- Nash's putative gift -- and his pieces, consequently, suffer from this deficeincy.

Yes, the conservative minds he speaks of in Reappraising The Right are worth understanding, but his depictions of them are often relatively tedious, less than crisp, and somehow do not command attention, as they did in his "masterpiece", where they were, in large measure, relentlessly magnetic.

Well, it's probably a little unfair to hold anyone's work up to their magnum opus. You only get one of those.
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3.0 out of 5 starsReappraising the Right
By Bruce Edward Walker on December 31, 2010
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In his 1950 work, "The Liberal Imagination," Lionel Trilling famously stated that American liberalism was the one true political philosophy, claiming it as the nation's "sole intellectual tradition."

Unknown to him, two young men -- one toiling as a professor at Michigan State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) and the other finishing his degree at Yale University - would publish two articulate, galvanizing works. The first, Russell Kirk, unleashed "The Conservative Mind," in which he defined conservatives as being wary of change, revolutions and ideologies in the manner of Irish statesman Edmund Burke. The second, William F. Buckley, first published "God and Man at Yale" and later inaugurated The National Review, the first issue bearing Buckley's definition of a conservative as one who stands "athwart history, yelling stop!"

Slight differences, to be sure, but, as George H. Nash notes in his excellent " Reappraising the Right," these variations are indicative of the inherent schisms in the modern American conservative tradition from its beginning.

Both Kirk and Buckley agreed that the conservative tradition had its roots in spirituality -specifically, the Judeo-Christian tradition. Morality and right-thinking come not from man, but from a higher power. Furthermore, humankind will continue to succumb to the temptations and appetites of the flesh it has been heir to since the Fall. The two men took as articles of faith that humanity is not perfectible and that the striving for earthbound utopias is foolhardy.Read more ›
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