Praised by President Richard Nixon as his favorite read for 1987, "The Search for Historical Meaning" presents the postwar American conservative movement against a background of ideas with which it has only rarely been identified. This important book - updated with a new preface and available for the first time in paperback - examines the influence of Hegelian concepts on the historical attitudes and cultural judgments of prominent postwar conservatives who, because of their concern with personal freedom as a political and ontological value, denounced Hegel while ascribing their own Hegelian...
Praised by President Richard Nixon as his favorite read for 1987, "The Search for Historical Meaning" presents the postwar American conservative movem...