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Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought, edited by William F. Buckley Jr. and Charles R. Kesler (Harper & Row, 469 pp„ $29.95)

As the Reagan Presidency enters its final months, a specter is haunting conservatives: the specter of a return to the wilderness. Whether the next occupant of the White House be an unreconstructed McGovernite from Massachusetts or the incumbent Vice President from Texas, increasing numbers of conservatives fear that the new Administration will not be theirs and that political initiative in the Nineties will return to their foes on the Left. Like aging New Dealers after the passing of Franklin Roosevelt, anxious Reaganites have begun to lament that the euphoria of 1981 may not recur in their lifetimes.

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George H. Nash

George H. Nash, a historian and lecturer, is the author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 and several volumes about the life of Herbert Hoover.

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Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought, edited by William F. Buckley Jr. and Charles R. Kesler (Harper & Row, 469 pp„ $29.95)

As the Reagan Presidency enters its final months, a specter is haunting conservatives: the specter of a return to the wilderness. Whether the next occupant of the White House be an unreconstructed McGovernite from Massachusetts or the incumbent Vice President from Texas, increasing numbers of conservatives fear that the new Administration will not be theirs and that political initiative in the Nineties will return to their foes on the Left. Like aging New Dealers after the passing of Franklin Roosevelt, anxious Reaganites have begun to lament that the euphoria of 1981 may not recur in their lifetimes.

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About the Author

George H. Nash

George H. Nash, a historian and lecturer, is the author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 and several volumes about the life of Herbert Hoover.