Carolina QuotesThe truth is that, for all their talk about social “roots,” conservative intellectuals in the postwar era were often rootless men themselves, and the philosophical mystifications in which they enveloped themselves were frequently the only garments that fit them.
Samuel T. Francis Connected to the Carolinas
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- Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (1994)
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- 1994
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