Conservative Heroes by Garland S. Tucker, III

Profiles in Conservative Courage Conservatism in America, as one early-twentieth-century politician said, is “as old as the Republic itself.” But what are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement? Author Garland S. Tucker III tells the story in this lively look at fourteen champions of conservative thought—some well known, others hardly remembered at all. Taking readers on an exciting tour from the American Founding to the modern era, Tucker traces the development of conservatism’s basic tenets and shows how leaders put principle into action (some more successfully than others). Conservative Heroes offers brief but penetrating profiles of:  The Founders who agreed on the two primary purposes of government—but differed on how best to achieve the balance between them The pair of nineteenth-century congressional leaders who fought to preserve the founding vision of a limited national government The towering statesman whose defense of sl