{"product_id":"the-rebuke-of-history-the-southern-agrarians-and-american-conservative-thought","title":"The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1930  a group of southern intellectuals led by John Crowe Ransom  Allen Tate  Donald Davidson  and Robert Penn Warren published Ill Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. A stark attack on industrial capitalism and a defiant celebration of southern culture  the book has raised the hackles of critics and provoked passionate defenses from southern loyalists ever since. As Paul Murphy shows  its effects on the evolution of American conservatism have been enduring as well.  Tracing the Agrarian tradition from its origins in the 1920s through the present day  Murphy shows how what began as a radical conservative movement eventually became  alternately  a critique of twentieth-century American liberalism  a defense of the Western tradition and Christian humanism  and a form of southern traditionalism  which could include a defense of racial segregation. Although Agrarianism failed as a practical reform movement  its intellectual influence was wide-ranging  Murphy says. This influence expanded as Ransom  Tate  and Warren gained reputations as leaders of the New Criticism. More notably  such neo-Agrarians as Richard M. Weaver and M. E. Bradford transformed Agrarianism into a form of social and moral traditionalism that has had a significant impact on the emerging conservative movement since World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946976079925,"sku":"ByrdShop_080784960X","price":63.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807849606.jpg?v=1769975560","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-rebuke-of-history-the-southern-agrarians-and-american-conservative-thought","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}