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FIFTY years ago last autumn, William F. Buckley Jr. launched a “journal of opinion” for “radical conservatives.” National Review, he announced in its opening issue, stood “athwart history, yelling Stop.” Fifty years later, his daring venture had not only defied the tides of history but had altered their course.

How did this happen? Like many another little magazine, National Review could easily have foundered on the shoals of ideological disaster. It could have become a voice of carping irrelevance, the plaything of an isolated sect. Instead, it grew to refine and then to redefine the mainstream of American public life. In The Making of the American Conservative Mind, Jeffrey Hart aims to tell us why.

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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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William F. Buckley Jr.

FIFTY years ago last autumn, William F. Buckley Jr. launched a “journal of opinion” for “radical conservatives.” National Review, he announced in its opening issue, stood “athwart history, yelling Stop.” Fifty years later, his daring venture had not only defied the tides of history but had altered their course.

How did this happen? Like many another little magazine, National Review could easily have foundered on the shoals of ideological disaster. It could have become a voice of carping irrelevance, the plaything of an isolated sect. Instead, it grew to refine and then to redefine the mainstream of American public life. In The Making of the American Conservative Mind, Jeffrey Hart aims to tell us why.

GH

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.