Download e-book for kindle: Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America, by Garland S Tucker

Conservatism in the United States, as one early twentieth-century baby-kisser acknowledged, is “as previous because the Republic itself.” yet what are its foundational ideas, and the way did they shape the fashionable conservative flow? writer Garland S. Tucker III tells the tale during this energetic examine fourteen champions of conservative thought—some renowned, others not often remembered in any respect. Taking readers on a thrilling travel from the yankee Founding to the trendy period, Tucker lines the advance of conservatism’s simple tenets and indicates how leaders placed precept into motion (some extra effectively than others).

Conservative Heroes deals short yet penetrating profiles of:
—The Founders who agreed at the fundamental reasons of government—but differed on how most sensible to accomplish the stability among them
—The pair of nineteenth-century congressional leaders who fought to maintain the founding imaginative and prescient of a restricted nationwide government
—The towering statesman whose safeguard of slavery has obscured his huge contributions to American constitutional history
—The final Democratic president to enhance conservative principles
—The president and treasury secretary who jointly decreased taxes and the scale of the federal government—and sparked an monetary boom
—The forgotten leaders, either Democrats, who spearheaded the conservative problem to FDR’s New Deal
—The guy who revived the GOP because the conservative party
—The 3 riding forces in the back of the ascent of recent conservatism

this is the tale of yankee conservatism in fourteen lives—a tale we have to comprehend to take on the demanding situations we are facing today.