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Upstream: The Ascendance
of American Conservatism,
by Alfred S. Regnery
(Threshold, 448 pp., $26)
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IN this quadrennial silly season, the political spectacle can get discouraging. What better moment, then, for the appearance of Alfred Regnery's splendid--and definitive--new history of the triumph of the conservative movement over the past half century?
No one even remotely familiar with the tough but determined "upstream" slog of conservatives since 1950 can fail to appreciate how great their achievement was. The movement started out small and fragmented; conservatives, in Regnery's words, "had ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Turning the tide.(books, arts & manners)(Book review)