The Top 5 Social Conservative Books Of All Time

4.) Robert Nisbet’s book, The Quest For Community, argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, and the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. The book provided a communitarian, localist ethos to the American conservative movement, and helped point out the dangers of the modern State.

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