Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Search for an Authentic Conservatism -- PART I The Southern Tradition -- I.1 Why They Hate Thomas Jefferson -- I.2 Robert E. Lee -- I.3 Zebulon Vance: The Greatest Tar Heel -- I.4 The Other Side of Empire: Antiwar Southrons -- I.5 Southrons First: Dixie Democrats Revisited -- I.6 Agrarian Valhalla: The Vanderbilt Twelve and Beyond -- I.7 Donald Davidson -- I.8 The View From Monteagle: Honoring Andrew Lytle on the Occasion of His Centennial -- I.9 Richard M. Weaver: Philosopher From Dixie -- I.10 M.E. Bradford: History in the Bones -- I.11 Red's Revenge -- I.12 Thomas Wolfe -- I.13 Something of How to Live: The World of Wendell Berry -- I.14 The Last Great Virginian -- I.15 The Lost World of Allen Tate -- PART II Towards a New Conservatism -- II.1 An Antidote to Multiculturalism -- II.2 A Bundle of Contradictions -- II.3 Cant Free Conservatism -- II.4 Clyde Wilson -- II.5 The Rest of the Story -- II.6 A Nation of Immigrants? -- II.7 The Unvanquished Senator Helms -- II.8 The Devil and Enoch Powell -- PART III Patrick J. Buchanan -- III.1 The Wal Mart Economy -- III.2 All Empires End in Ruin -- III.3 The Shock of Recognition -- III.4 The Last Conservative -- III.5 America Used to Be Your County -- III.6 Should Britain Have Stayed Home? -- PART IV Samuel T. Francis -- IV.1 Goodbye, Middle America -- IV.2 "Conserve," Hell! -- IV.3 While America Sleeps -- IV.4 Samuel T. Francis, R.I.P. -- IV.5 Another Shot of Courage -- PART V A Republic of Letters -- V.1 Saul Bellow -- V.2 Updike at Rest -- V.3 J.D. Salinger: All's Well That Ends Well -- V.4 T.S. Eliot, Editor -- V.5 The Young Man and His Corona -- V.6 Walk Like a Man: The Early Novels of Richard Price -- V.7 All of America -- V.8 What It Takes: The Larry Brown Story -- V.9 Mark Royden Winchell: Last of the Vanderbilt Greats