Robert Taft : the gray men of modern conservatism and the rights of property
William Buckley : building the conservative political culture
Barry Goldwater : cowboy conservatism, race politics, and the other sixties
Phyllis Schlafly : domestic conservatism and social order
Ronald Reagan : the conservative hero
George W. Bush : the conservative calling and the great crack-up
The rise and fall of modern American conservatism : a short history by David R. Farber. ISBN 9780691129150. Published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.