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...