Bibliography of conservatism in the United States
This is a selective bibliography of conservatism in the United States covering the key political, intellectual and organizational themes that are dealt with in Conservatism in the United States. Google Scholar produces a listing of 93,000 scholarly books and articles on "American Conservatism" published since 2000. The titles below are found in the recommended further reading sections of the books and articles cited under "Surveys" and "Historiography." The "Historiography" and "Critical views" section mostly comprise items critical or hostile of American conservatism.
Kim Phillips-Fein in 2018 argued, "an entire field of scholarship has emerged to interrogate the roots, development, and persistence of modern American conservatism." Robert Mason in 2015 noted:
Surveys
- Allitt, Patrick. The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History
- Critchlow, Donald T. The Conservative Ascendancy: How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America
- Farber, David. The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History.
- Filler, Louis. Dictionary of American Conservatism
- Frohnen, Bruce et al. eds. American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia
- Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945.
Historiography
- Brinkley, Alan. "The Problem of American Conservatism," American Historical Review 99 : 409–29.
- Burns, Jennifer. "In Retrospect: George Nash's the Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945," Reviews in American History, Sep 2004, Vol. 32 Issue 3, pp. 447–62 in Project MUSE
- Cowie, Jefferson, and Nick Salvatore, "The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History," International Labor & Working-Class History, 74:3–32; argue the New Deal was a response to depression and did not mark a commitment to a welfare state because America has always been too individualistic
- Dochuk, Darren. "Revival on the Right: Making Sense of the Conservative Moment in Post-World War II American History," History Compass 4#4 pp. 975–99,
- Kazin, Michael. "The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism in the Twentieth Century," American Historical Review 97:136–55
- Lewis, Hyman. "Historians and the Myth of American Conservatism" Journal of The Historical Society, 12#1 pp. 27–45.
- McGirr, Lisa. "Now That Historians Know So Much about the Right, How Should We Best Approach the Study of Conservatism?" Journal of American History 98: 765–70
- Moore, Leonard Joseph. "Good Old-Fashioned New Social History and the Twentieth-Century American Right," Reviews in American History 24#4 pp. 555–73
- Phillips-Fein, Kim. "Conservatism: A State of the Field," Journal of American History 98#3 pp. 723–43, with commentary by Wilfred M. McClay, Alan Brinkley, Donald T. Critchlow, Martin Durham, Matthew D. Lassiter, and Lisa McGirr, and response by Phillips-Fein, pp. 744–73
- Ponce de Leon, Charles L. "The New Historiography of the 1980s," Reviews in American History, 36#2 pp. 303–31, in Project MUSE
- Ribuffo, Leo P. "Why is There so Much Conservatism in the United States and Why Do So Few Historians Know Anything about It". American Historical Review Vol. 99, No. 2, pp. 438–49
- Ribuffo, Leo P. "The Discovery and Rediscovery of American Conservatism Broadly Conceived," OAH Magazine of History 17#2 pp. 5–10.
- Ribuffo, Leo. "Conservatism and American Politics". Journal of the Historical Society, March 2003, Vol. 3 Issue 2, pp. 163–75
- Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy. "Whither the Right?: Old and New Directions in the History of American Conservatism." Reviews in American History 44.4 : 644–52.
- Zelizer, Julian E. "Reflections: Rethinking the History of American Conservatism," Reviews in American History, 38#2, pp. 367–92
Intellectual history
- de Forest, Jennifer. "Conservatism Goes to College: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in the Rise of Conservative Student Networks," History of Higher Education Annual, 26, 103–27.
- Dunn, Charles W. and J. David Woodard; The Conservative Tradition in America Rowman & Littlefield, 1996
- Foner, Eric. "Radical Individualism in America: Revolution to Civil War," Literature of Liberty, vol. 1 no. 3, 1978 pp. 1–31
- Genovese, Eugene. The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
- Gottfried, Paul. The Conservative Movement Twayne, 1993.
- Guttman, Allan. The Conservative Tradition in America Oxford University Press, 1967.
- Kendall, Willmoore, and George W. Carey. "Towards a Definition of 'Conservatism." Journal of Politics 26 : 406–22.
- Kirk, Russell. The Conservative Mind. Regnery Publishing; 7th edition :
- Lee, Michael J. Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement
- Langdale, John. Superfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism and the South, 1920–1990
- Lora, Ronald. Conservative Minds in America Greenwood, 1976.
- Lora, Ronald. The Conservative Press in Twentieth-Century America Greenwood Press, 1999
- Lora, Ronald, and William Henry Longton eds. The Conservative Press in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century America
- Lowi, Theodore J. The End of the Republican Era
- Lyons, Paul. American Conservatism: Thinking It, Teaching It.. 202 pp.
- Mergel, Sarah Katherine. Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon: Rethinking the Rise of the Right ; 248 pages; traces Nixon's relations with conservative intellectuals from 1968 to 1974, including those who saw him as a closet liberal.
- Meyer, Frank S. ed. What Is Conservatism?.
- Murphy, Paul V. The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought
- Nau, Henry R. Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan
- Nisbet, Robert A. Conservatism: Dream and Reality. University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
- Rossiter, Clinton. Conservatism in America. 2nd ed. Harvard University Press, 1982.
- Thorne, Melvin J. American Conservative Thought since World War II: The Core Ideas
- Viereck, Peter. Conservatism: from John Adams to Churchill
Political activity
- Aberbach, Joel D., and Gillian Peele, eds. Crisis of Conservatism?: The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, and American Politics After Bush
- Critchlow, Donald T. When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics
- Cunningham, Sean P. American Politics in the Postwar Sunbelt: Conservative Growth in a Battleground Region
- Cunningham, Sean P. Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right..
- Hart, Jeffrey. The Making of the American Conservative Mind: The National Review and Its Times
- Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: 1964–1980
- Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980–1989
- Heath, Karen Patricia. "New Directions in the History of Conservative Women." Journal of Women's History 29#2 : 165–72.
- Horwitz, Robert B. America's right: anti-establishment conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party.
- Kabaservice, Geoffrey. Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party scholarly history
- McDonald, Forrest. States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876
- Malsberger, John W. From Obstruction to Moderation: The Transformation of Senate Conservatism, 1938–1952.
- Nickerson, Michelle M. Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right, 248 pp.
- Patterson, James. Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933–39
- Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus on 1964
- Reinhard, David W. Republican Right since 1945 University Press of Kentucky, 1983
- Ribuffo, Leo P. The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War
- Scanlon, Sandra, "The Conservative Lobby and Nixon's 'Peace with Honor' in Vietnam," Journal of American Studies 43, 255–76.
- Schweikart, Larry, and Michael Allen. A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror, 930 pp. the most thorough textbook from an explicitly conservative viewpoint
- Shelley II, Mack C. The Permanent Majority: The Conservative Coalition in the United States Congress
- Tucker, Garland S., III. The high tide of American conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 election
- Wilensky, Norman N. Conservatives in the Progressive Era: The Taft Republicans of 1912''.
Biographical
- Bogus, Carl T. Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
- Chambers, Whittaker, Witness, a memoir his Communist years; primary source
- Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
- Crunden, Robert M. The Mind and Art of Albert Jay Nock
- Dierenfield, Bruce J. Keeper of the Rules: Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia, leader of the Conservative coalition in Congress
- Federici, Michael P. Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order
- Fite, Gilbert. Richard B. Russell, Jr, Senator from Georgia leader of the Conservative coalition in Congress
- Goldberg, Robert Alan. Barry Goldwater
- Judis, John B. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives
- Kelly, Daniel. James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life
- Lurie, Jonathan, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative
- Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft
- Pemberton, William E. Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan
- Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth. Mencken: The American Iconoclast
- Smant, Kevin J. Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement
- Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover particularly 1933–64
- Tanenhaus, Sam. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
Recent politics
- Agarwal, Sheetal D., et al. "Grassroots organizing in the digital age: Considering values and technology in Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street." Information, Communication & Society 17.3 : 326–41.
- Bader, John B. Taking the Initiative: Leadership Agendas in Congress and the "Contract with America"
- Berkowitz, Peter. Varieties Of Conservatism In America
- Collins, Robert M. Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years,.
- Ehrman, John. The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan
- Gutsche, Jr., Robert E. ed. The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy.
- Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan, 1964–1980: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order ; The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980–1989
- Himmelstein, Jerome and J. A. McRae Jr. "Social Conservatism, New Republicans and the 1980 Election", Public Opinion Quarterly, 48#3, 595–605.
- Micklethwait, John, and Adrian Wooldridge. The Right Nation , overview by British journalists
- Rae, Nicol C. Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress
- Schoenwald, Jonathan. A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism
- Skocpol, Theda, and Vanessa Williamson. The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism
- Valentine, Phil. The Conservative's Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z.
- Van Dyke, Nella, and David S. Meyer. Understanding the Tea Party Movement
Libertarian
- Bessner, Daniel. "Murray Rothbard, political strategy, and the making of modern libertarianism." Intellectual History Review 24#4 : 441–56.
- Burns, Jennifer. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American right
- Keckler, Charles, and Mark J. Rozell. "The Libertarian Right and the Religious Right." Perspectives on Political Science 44#.2 : 92–99.
- Sager, Ryan. The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party
- Waldenmaier, Jacob Louis. "Mystique of the Intellectual: Heroes of Ayn Rand's Dystopias and Ron Paul's Revolution." Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture 3.
Neoconservatism
- Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind
- Fukuyama, Francis. America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
- Gerson, Mark. The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to Culture Wars
- Halper, Stefan & Clarke, Jonathan, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order
Critical views
- Bell, David. ed, The Radical Right. Doubleday 1963.
- Coser Lewis A., and Irving Howe, eds. The New Conservatives: A Critique from the Left New American Library, 1976.
- Diamond, Sara. Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States.
- Huntington, Samuel P. "Conservatism as an Ideology." American Political Science Review 52 : 454–73.
- Koopman; Douglas L. Hostile Takeover: The House Republican Party, 1980–1995 Rowman & Littlefield, 1996
- Lapham, Lewis H. "Tentacles of Rage" in Harper's, September 2004, pp. 31–41.
- Martin, William. 1996. With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, New York: Broadway Books.
- Schulman, Bruce J. and Julian E. Zelizer, eds. Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s
Social science approaches
- Aberbach, Joel D. "Understanding American Political Conservatism." in Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn, eds. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource.
- Alexander, Gerard. "The Fog of Political War: Predicting the Future Course of Conservatism." Journal of Policy History 26#1 pp. 121–37. analysis of projected demographic trends
- Gross, Neil, Thomas Medvetz, and Rupert Russell. "The Contemporary American Conservative Movement." Annual Review of Sociology 37 pp. 325–54
- Perrin, Andrew J., J. Micah Roos, and Gordon W. Gauchat. "From Coalition to Constraint: Modes of Thought in Contemporary American Conservatism." Sociological Forum 29#2 pp. 285–300
Primary sources
- Buckley, William F., Jr., ed. Up from Liberalism Stein and Day,
- Buckley, William F., Jr., ed. Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the 20th Century Bobbs-Merrill,
- Gerson, Mark, ed., The Essential Neo-Conservative Reader
- Kristol, Irving, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea,
- Schneider, Gregory L. ed. Conservatism in America Since 1930: A Reader
- Stelzer, Irwin ed. The NeoCon Reader
- Wolfe, Gregory. Right Minds: A Sourcebook of American Conservative Thought. Regnery,