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Re: us.(The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times)(Book review)
The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times, by Jeffrey Hart (ISI, 394 pp., $28)
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.
In many ways Hart is ideally equipped for this task. A reader of National Review since its inception, and one of its senior editors since 1969, he has both observed and participated in its development. Along the way he has come to know nearly all the intellectuals who put their imprint on its pages. His appraisals, in this book, of such men as Russell Kirk, Frank Meyer, Willmoore Kendall, and James Burnham are astute and illuminating. For these alone his book should not be missed.
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