In Defense of Freedom Frank S Meyer First Edition

In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo by Frank S. Meyer. First Edition. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1962.

Meyer's first full-length statement of fusionism, the argument that the conservative tradition's commitment to virtue and its defense of individual liberty are one cause rather than two. Written by a former Communist Party organizer who became a senior editor of National Review, it laid out the intellectual framework Meyer would develop for the rest of his career. It appeared just as the modern conservative movement was taking shape, and it remains a foundational text for understanding how that movement defined itself.