Re: Reading list
[Rod Dreher  03/31 11:09 AM]

Sarah Butler Nardo, erstwhile crunchy blogger, writes:

I like the reading list idea very much - my recommendations would be "At the End of an Age" by John Lukacs and some Nisbet, probably "The Quest for Community," which any conservative, crunchy or no, should have read anyway. I aspire to be a historian, so I'm biased, but I do think conservatives have a poor grasp of our own cultural/social history, especially prior to the 1950s. Allan Carlson has some great stuff that would start to address this deficiency, particularly his book "The 'American Way': Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity." And my husband suggested "Crowd Culture: An Examination of the American Way of Life," by Bernard Iddings Bell, but I haven't actually read that one myself.