Gottfried, Paul. “A Dream Denied.” Policy Review, no. 38, (1986): 88-89.

Abstract:

[In the following review of Conservatism, Gottfried argues that Nisbet’s rejection of both egalitarianism and religious enthusiasm renders his conservatism interesting but largely irrelevant to contemporary political debates.]

Conservatism: Dream and Reality is the latest book in a string of distinguished works by Robert Nisbet, going back to The Quest for Community (1952) and The Sociological Tradition (1967). Although Nisbet’s post-1960 books have been generally leaner than his voluminous early studies of social theory and social crisis, certain…

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