Conservatism Movement
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Conservatism Movement in America
From the mid 1940s to the early 2000s, the conservative movement was at its apex in United States history. The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents by Ronald Story and Bruce Laurie contains documents all pertaining to the conservative movement. Out of the collection of the various documents in The Rise of Conservatism, five stand out to be the most important in detailing what the conservative moment was and what the basic beliefs and goals were. The documents are as follows: From The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk, From the Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr. publisher’s statement on his founding the National Review, Richard Nixon’s Labor Day Radio Address, and Ronald Reagan’s nomination acceptance speech.
These five documents all have the same goal and that is to articulate the basic beliefs and goals of the conservative movement. Some of the beliefs and goals of the conservative movement are as follows: lower taxes, smaller federal government, and anticommunism. These documents, all by different important leaders in the movement, address these beliefs.
Influential people of the conservative movement included William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, along with some other politicians. Russell Kirk wrote The Conservative Mind, in which he laid out his ‘six canons of conservative thought’. William F. Buckley founded the National Review. The National Review was a journal that was published in order to provide an opposing view to that of the liberal publications including The Nation, The New Republic, and also The New York Times. Barry Goldwater was a republican senator from Arizona. He believed in the conservative movement and he published The Conscience of a Conservative in which he sums up the conservative position on the basic beliefs of the movement. Richard Nixon was in the beginning
Conservatism Movement in America
From the mid 1940s to the early 2000s, the conservative movement was at its apex in United States history. The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents by Ronald Story and Bruce Laurie contains documents all pertaining to the conservative movement. Out of the collection of the various documents in The Rise of Conservatism, five stand out to be the most important in detailing what the conservative moment was and what the basic beliefs and goals were. The documents are as follows: From The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk, From the Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr. publisher’s statement on his founding the National Review, Richard Nixon’s Labor Day Radio Address, and Ronald Reagan’s nomination acceptance speech.
These five documents all have the same goal and that is to articulate the basic beliefs and goals of the conservative movement. Some of the beliefs and goals of the conservative movement are as follows: lower taxes, smaller federal government, and anticommunism. These documents, all by different important leaders in the movement, address these beliefs.
Influential people of the conservative movement included William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, along with some other politicians. Russell Kirk wrote The Conservative Mind, in which he laid out his ‘six canons of conservative thought’. William F. Buckley founded the National Review. The National Review was a journal that was published in order to provide an opposing view to that of the liberal publications including The Nation, The New Republic, and also The New York Times. Barry Goldwater was a republican senator from Arizona. He believed in the conservative movement and he published The Conscience of a Conservative in which he sums up the conservative position on the basic beliefs of the movement. Richard Nixon was in the beginning