In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil[...]

Praised by President Richard Nixon as his favorite read for 1987, "The Search for Historical Meaning" presents the postwar American conservative movement against a background of ideas with which it has only rarely been identified. This important book - updated with a new preface and available for th[...]