Keeping the tablets.(American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia )(Book review)

From: National Review | Date: May 8, 2006| Author: Potemra, Michael | Copyright information

'CONSERVATISM," like "liberalism," has been in the United States a remarkably capacious term. Social conservatives, libertarians, paleos, neos, Burkeans, Agrarians, Austrianschool economists, and many other types of thinkers have all sheltered under the word-umbrella "conservatism." In examining a work like American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (ISI, 979 pp., $35)--the massive new reference book shepherded by Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson, under the auspices of...

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