The proposed monograph makes the first attempt at a comprehensive study of American conservatism from the end of the 19th century. before the outbreak of the global economic crisis of 1929-1933. The task of the study is to determine the main contours of the con servative policy on such problems, like conservatives and the ruling class, conservatives and the state, conservatives and workers, Tory conservatives and trade unions, conservatives and military regulation, conservative theory and conservative practice. In the work can be traced! the emergence and development of the social doctrine of conservatism, which half its design in the years of "prosperity." For historians.