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The Giants of American Conservatism

In 1956, Clinton Rossiter, a professor of political science at Cornell University, published Conservatism in America, which he summarized in an article, "The Giants of American Conservatism", published in American Heritage magazine. His goal was to identify the "great men who did conservative deeds, thought conservative thoughts, practiced conservative virtues, and stood for conservative principles". To Rossiter, conservatism was defined by the rule of the upper class. He wrote, "The Right of these freewheeling decades was a genuine Right: it was led by the rich and well-placed; it was skeptical of popular government; it was opposed to all parties, unions, leagues, or other movements that sought to invade its positions of power and profit; it was politically, socially, and culturally anti-radical."