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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Conservatism’s Forerunners

One. Critics of Revolution

i. The Hard Authority of Punishment and Soft Authority of Custom: Maistre and Burke ii. The Call of Faith and Beauty: Chateaubriand iii. Order in Nations and among Nations: Gentz iv. Revolution to Prevent Revolution: Madison v. What the Critics Left to Conservatism

Part II: What Conservatism Is

Two. Character, Outlook, and Labelling of Conservatism

i. Conservatism as a Political Practice ii. The Conservative Outlook iii. Conservative and Liberal Outlooks Contrasted iv. Bonding Spaces for Conservatives with Liberals v. The Adaptability of Conservative Ideas vi. “Conservatism,” “the Right,” and Other Label Troubles vii. Dilemmas for Conservatives viii. Fighting for a Tradition

Part III: Conservatism’s First Phase (1830–80): Resisting Liberalism

The Year 1830 Three. Parties and Politicians: A Right without Authority

i. Improvisations of the French Right ii. The British Right’s Divided Heart: Peel or Disraeli iii. German Conservatives without Caricature iv. United States: Whigs and Jacksonians; Republicans and Democrats

Four. Ideas and Thinkers: Turning Reason against Liberalism

i. Constitutions for Unacceptable Ends: Calhoun ii. Reason for the Right Replaces Nostalgia: Stahl iii. How Conservatives Should Defend Religion: Lamennais, Ketteler, Newman, Brownson, and Hodge iv. Conservatism’s Need for Intellectuals: Coleridge’s Clerisy v. Against Liberal Individualism: Stephen, Gierke, and Bradley

Part IV: Conservatism’s Second Phase (1880–1945): Adaptation and Compromise

The Year 1880 Five. Parties and Politicians: Authority Recovered and Squandered

i. The Moderate Right in France’s Third Republic ii. British Conservatives Adapt iii. The Ambivalence of German Conservatives iv. The American Nonexception

Six. Ideas and Thinkers: Distrust of Democracy and of Public Reason

i. Defending Capitalism: Mallock, Sumner, and Schumpeter ii. Six Ways to Imagine the People: Treitschke, Le Bon, Du Camp, Adams, Mencken, and Sorel iii. Cultural Decline and Ethical Anomie: Jünger and Other Germans, Drieu la Rochelle, the Southern Agrarians, and Eliot iv. Funeral Oratory for Liberal Democracy: Schmitt and Maurras

Part V: Conservatism’s Third Phase (1945–80): Political Command and Intellectual Recovery

The Year 1945 Seven. Parties and Politicians: Recovering Nerve and Rewinning Power

i. Normality, Pride, and Rage in France: Pinay, de Gaulle, and Poujade ii. Tory Wets and Dries in Britain: Macmillan to Thatcher iii. Remaking the German Middle Ground: Adenauer and Christian Democracy iv. The US Right Divided: Eisenhower-Taft, Rockefeller-Goldwater, Ford-Reagan

Eight. Ideas and Thinkers: Answering Liberal Orthodoxies

i. Herald of the Hard Right: Powell ii. Our Conservative Second Nature: Gehlen iii. The Liberal Moderns’ Fall from Grace: Weaver, Voegelin, and MacIntyre iv. Winning the US Stage: Kirk, Buckley, and Kristol

Part VI: Conservatism’s Fourth Phase (1980–The Present): Hyper-Liberalism and the Hard Right

The Year 1980 Nine. Parties and Politicians: Letting in the Hard Right

i. The Center-Right in the 1980s and 1990s ii. The Rise of the Hard Right: The Le Pens, AfD, Brexit, and Trump iii. The Theme Music of the Hard Right: Decline, Capture, Enemies, and Victimhood iv. What Populism Is and Isn’t

Ten. Ideas and Thinkers: Yes or No to a Hyper-liberal Status Quo

i. Right-Wing Liberals, Antiglobalists, and Moral-Cultural Conservatives ii. The Hard Right in the American Grain: Buchanan, the Paleos, and Dreher iii. The New Voices of the Right in Germany and France iv. Three Unreconciled Thinkers: Finnis, Scruton, and Sloterdijk v. For the Status-Quo: Pragmatism, the Via Media, Anxiety, or “Realism”

Coda: Choices for the Right Appendix A: Conservative Keywords Appendix B: Philosophical Sources of Conservative Thought Appendix C: Conservative Lives: A Gazetteer Works Consulted Index of Names Index of Subjects

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