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"Dr. Richard Bishirjian's Conservative Rebellion examines the American conservative movement in light of phases of American history in which the life of the American nation took shape from forces and conditions of the American soul. The author argues that the first phase of our common political life was a rebellion that we call the "Spirit of '76." That rebellion attempted to preserve the practices, traditions, and customary rights of a tradition of self-government that developed during the 140 years of the Colonial era. That first "Conservative Rebellion," erupting in Lexington and Concord, was a conservative rebellion whose spirit shapes American politics and society even today through the American conservative "movement." The author contrasts their rebellion to the revolutionary political religion of President Woodrow Wilson"--

'Conservative Protestant Politics' by Steve Bruce is reviewed.

Since his death ten years ago, conservative Michael Oakeshott has received very little attention from academia. Deemed a skeptic, he preached the vanity of any type of political activism. He disliked politics, politicians, & political scientists. He maintained that scientific treatment of human affairs was possible but not profitable. Writers agree that he denounced rationalism in politics with vigor. He found the same driving force regarding rationalism as Marx but put a different value on it. Although he was often arbitrary in drawing the line between rationalist political constructions & those institutions that have grown to no one's design over long period of time, his criticism was a useful weapon to put into the hands of conservatives. E. Larsen

MANY CONSERVATIVES ACCUSE GEORGE SHULTZ OF ATTEMPTING TO UNDERMINE REAGAN'S FOREIGN POLICY. THEY PROMULGATE TWO COMPETING THEORIES: (1) SHULTZ IS UNINTERESTED IN SUBTLE POLICY CHANGES AND ALLOWS THE FOREIGN SERVICE TO DICTATE POLICY; (2) SHULTZ KNOWS FULL WELL WHAT IS GOING ON AND AGREES WITH EVERYTHING.

An account of the ambitious work of Keith Middlemas, whose studies of British economic structure and policy have never fallen within the anti-statist consensus. It emerges that even this Conservative theorist is obliged to employ an explicit or implicit concept of class relations as he reconstructs the sorry story of successive British administrations from the twenties to the seventies. (Abstract amended)