Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v25 |
| Issue | n11 |
| Published | 1994-04-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Brian Doherty |
| Reviewee | n/a | Samuel Francis |
"AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IS A failure," writes Samuel Francis in this book's title essay. "Virtually every cause to which conservatives have attached themselves for the past three generations has been lost, and the tide of political and cultural battle is not likely to turn anytime soon."
This blunt assessment seems curious coming from Francis, a columnist for The Washington Times and Chronicles, both conservative publications. It seems especially defeatist in a book that presents an agenda for a counterrevolution of values generally identified as "conservative" in American...
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