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Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement, by Kevin J. Smant (ISI, 425 pp., $29.95)
For fifty years, most American conservatives have stood for three basic propositions: that American foreign policy should seek to end totalitarian regimes; that the domestic functions of government, and especially of the federal government, should be strictly limited; and that the moral precepts traditionally associated with Christianity (sometimes the formulation includes Judaism as well) should be upheld.
These propositions attracted distinct, though overlapping, constituencies to conservatism: defense hawks, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Fusionist.('Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the...