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War & Military thinkers
James Burnham Philosopher and former Trotskyist who wrote The Managerial Revolution and Suicide of the West and was a senior editor of National Review from its start. Jeane Kirkpatrick Georgetown political scientist and the first woman U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, author of the essay Dictatorships and Double Standards. Ronald Reagan Fortieth president and former California governor whose tax cuts, defence buildup and firm stand against communism defined the modern conservative era. Winston Churchill British statesman and writer who led the country as prime minister from 1940 to 1945, warned against appeasement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Barry Goldwater Arizona senator and 1964 Republican nominee whose book The Conscience of a Conservative helped lay the groundwork for the modern conservative movement.