The rise and fall of modern American conservatism: a short history

Robert Taft : the gray men of modern conservatism and the rights of property

William Buckley : building the conservative political culture

Barry Goldwater : cowboy conservatism, race politics, and the other sixties

Phyllis Schlafly : domestic conservatism and social order

Ronald Reagan : the conservative hero

George W. Bush : the conservative calling and the great crack-up.