Stephen, American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is indeed a classy work. Nearly 1,000 pages, with almost all of the entries written by the most knowledgeable conservative or libertarian scholars available on each subject. That includes Ralph Raico on (classical) liberalism, Murray Rothbard on Ludwig von Mises, Lew Rockwell on Austrian economics, Justus Doenecke on isolationism, and much more. Jeffrey Tucker provides the entry on George Santayana. The book is a treasure trove, and by having broadly sympathetic scholars contribute the entries on the many opposing schools of non-leftist thought, ACE gives as informative and non-polemical an account of neocons, paleos, libertarians, Straussians, historicists and the rest as anyone could hope for.
I learned just yesterday from E. Christian Kopff's entry on Paul Elmer More, one of the leading New Humanists of the '20s, that More was a Wash U alum (which Stephen and I are as well). Conservatives by and large have done a pretty poor job of conserving their own heritage, but the ACE goes a long way toward making up the deficit.
