George Hawley is associate professor of political science at the University of Alabama. He is the author of a number of books, including The Moderate Majority, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, and Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism.
Hawley argues that many conservatives are ill-equipped to deal with identity issues largely because of their adherence to an outdated and inadequate 'canon' of conservative movement literature that was largely produced in the 1950s and 1960s. -D. J. Mulloy, author of The World of the John Birch Society In this balanced, profound, and honest book, George Hawley delves into the history of American conservatism and traces its development from an intellectual enterprise to a real-world movement. If, as argued by Hawley, the call of identity in American politics is unlikely to fade, Conservatism in a Divided America provides a gentle warning to not dismiss its implications for the future of American politics-and conservatism itself-in the twenty-first century. -Jose Pedro Zuquete, author of The Identitarians George Hawley has already distinguished himself as one of the leading scholars of polarization, ideology, and American conservatism. But in Conservatism in a Divided America, Hawley has exceeded his own standard of excellence. In the era of identity politics and wokeness, this book is by far his most insightful-and provocative. -Jesse Merriam, Patrick Henry College