Excerpt from Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current UnrestAmericans can carry through their purposes when they have them. If the standpatter is still powerful amongst us it is because we have not learned to use our power, and di rect it to fruitful ends. The American conservative, it seems to me, fills the vacuum where democratic purpose should be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.