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An overview of five "Conservative Minds" (Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley, Jr., Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Frank S. Meyer) and seven "Witnesses" (Including Reagan, Wilhelm Ropke, Albert Jay Nock, and Richard Weaver) features excerpts from their writings introduced with essays by Heritage Foundation president Feulner.

So robust has been the conservative ascendancy of the last four decades that those who do not understand it do not understand modern America. An introduction to the lives and writings of twelve of the principal architects of this vigorous, varied movement is finally available in this important book by the head of the Heritage Foundation, the country's flagship conservative think-tank.

Edwin J. Feulner Jr.

Edwin J. Feulner Jr. (1941), president of The Heritage Foundation and publisher of its journal Policy Review, directs the scholarship, analysis, and writing at the heart of the conservative movement. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Wharton.

Edwin J. Feulner’s leadership as President of The Heritage Foundation has transformed the think tank from a small policy shop into America’s powerhouse of conservative ideas and what the New York Times calls “the Parthenon of the conservative metropolis.”

He is the former President and current Treasurer of the Mont Pelerin Society; he has served as a Trustee and former Chairman of the Board of ISI; a Board Member of the National Chamber Foundation; a Board Member of the Institut d’ Etudes Politiques; a member of the Board of Trustees of Regis University in Denver; and President of the Philadelphia Society, of which he is a Distinguished Member.

Feulner is a member of the Advisory Board of the Public Diplomacy Collaborative at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is past Director of the Sequoia Bank, the Council for National Policy, the Acton Institute, the International Republican Institute, the American Council on Germany, the Lehrman Institute, and George Mason University.

He is a longtime officer and director of three grant-making foundations: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Aequus Institute, and the Thomas A. Roe Foundation.

Feulner formerly served as a member of the Gingrich-Mitchell Congressional U.N. Reform Task Force (2005) and on the Congressional Commission on International Financial Institutions (“Meltzer Commission”) from 1999-2000. He was the Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform (“Kemp Commission”) from 1995-1996. As Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (1982-91), he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on three occasions.

He served as the Public Member (Ambassador) of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament in New York, as a consultant for domestic policy to President Reagan, and as an adviser to several government departments and agencies.

Feulner is the author of eight books: The American Spirit (2012), Getting America Right (2006), Leadership for America (2000), Intellectual Pilgrims (1999), The March of Freedom (1998), Conservatives Stalk the House (1983), Looking Back (1981) and Trading with the Communists (1968).

He was the editor of U.S. – Japan Mutual Security: The Next Twenty Years, China – The Turning Point, and a contributor to 10 other books and numerous journals, reviews and magazines. Feulner also was publisher of Heritage’s Policy Review magazine from 1977 until 2001, when Heritage transferred the publication to the Hoover Institution. He was the co-founder and Chairman of the Web site Townhall.com, which was established to coordinate online activities of dozens of conservative organizations and columnists.