Research Catalog

Title

Conservative heroes : fourteen leaders who shaped America, from Jefferson to Reagan / Garland S. Tucker.

Author

Tucker, Garland S., III

Publication

Wilmington, DE : Intercollegiate Studies Institute, [2015]

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Details

Description

234 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

""Conservative Heroes" is the story of fourteen Americans whose lives reflected conservative values and principles as defined by author Garland S. Tucker III. The book surveys the thought and achievement of statesmen ranging from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison through Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon up to Ronald Reagan"--

Subject

• Conservatives > United States > Biography
• Conservatism > United States > History
• Right and left (Political science) > United States > History
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
• Conservatism
• Conservatives
• Politics and government
• Right and left (Political science)
• United States > Politics and government
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword : Tucker's gift / by Amity Shlaes -- "A faithful band" -- Thomas Jefferson and James Madison : founding collaborators -- Nathaniel Macon and John Randolph : the "tertium quids" -- John C. Calhoun : "the cast-iron man" -- Grover Cleveland : character and courage -- Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon : commonsense government -- Josiah W. Bailey : the conservative manifesto of 1937 -- John W. Davis : "public enemy number one" -- Robert A. Taft : "Mr. Republican" -- William F. Buckley, Jr., Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan : the conservative triptych -- Epilogue : "As old as the republic itself."

ISBN

• 9781610171366 (hardback)
• 1610171365 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2015007845

OCLC

• 898165742
• SCSB-12177107

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library