Paul Edward Gottfried was born in 1941 and now serves as the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa. He is the author of 12 books on political conservatism and is a respectful practitioner of the "Old Right" in American politics. He is a Guggenheim recipient and an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute. Dr. Gottfried has written on intellectual history, paleoconservatism, ancient historiography, and political theory. He has also befriended and influenced notable conservative figures such as former president Richard Nixon, commentator Pat Buchanan, historian John Lukacs, critic Christopher Lasch, sociologist Robert Nisbet, and eonomist and theorist Murray Rothbard. To read an interview with Dr. Gottfried, please click here.
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Books by Paul E. Gottfried:
- Conservative Millenarians (1979)
- The Search for Historical Meaning (1986)
- The Conservative Movement (1993)
First edtion (1988), co-authored with Thomas Fleming - Carl Schmidt: Politics and Theory (1990)
- After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (1999)
