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Before it gets too late in the day, I’d like to say a word or two about George H. Nash’s exceptional book, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America (Basic Books, $20).

Sad to remark, this first-rate piece of history and analysis has been treated shabbily by Establishment reviewers. The hard knocks accorded by the liberal media range from the predictably arch (“We really need a good conservative book but this unfortunately isn’t it”) to the deliberately obtuse (“Do you really mean to call this ideological mish-mosh a movement?”). Familiar stuff, of course, but still disheartening.

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Before it gets too late in the day, I’d like to say a word or two about George H. Nash’s exceptional book, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America (Basic Books, $20).

Sad to remark, this first-rate piece of history and analysis has been treated shabbily by Establishment reviewers. The hard knocks accorded by the liberal media range from the predictably arch (“We really need a good conservative book but this unfortunately isn’t it”) to the deliberately obtuse (“Do you really mean to call this ideological mish-mosh a movement?”). Familiar stuff, of course, but still disheartening.