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American Conservatism: A Historiographic Renaissance without Much of a Reconsideration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2012

ELIZABETH TANDY SHERMER
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 2: Special Issue on Oil Cultures , May 2012 , pp. 481 - 488
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