"A wonderful book." - Fred Barnes "Reserves a special place for Tucker in the pantheon of political authors." - National Review Online "Many readers resent the narrowness standard histories offer. They will welcome Conservative Heroes, which so thoughtfully draws out the full picture." - Amity Shlaes "A missing history of conservatism." - The American Conservative "A very accessible account of what American conservatism is, and has done." - Chronicles Conservatism in America, as one early-twentieth-century politician said, is "as old as the Republic itself." But what are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement? Author Garland S. Tucker III tells the story in this lively look at fourteen champions of conservative thought - some well known, others hardly remembered at all. Taking readers on an exciting tour from the American Founding to the modern era, Tucker traces the development of conservatism's basic tenets and shows how leaders put principle into action (some more successfully than others). Conservative Heroes offers brief but penetrating profiles Here is the story of American conservatism in fourteen lives - a story we need to understand to tackle the challenges we face today.