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The average rating for The Reluctant supplier based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-02 00:00:00 Tiesha Atkinson An excellent little book that skillfully and poetically contextualizes the enormous transformations that occurred in American life from 1917 through the second Reagan term. Though showered with accolades by Reagan, he still excoriates the Gipper throughout. Should be recommended reading for students of American history and society as it strangely (and sadly) evolved in the short 20th century. One of the most interesting and articulate conservatives I've come across in a while.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-06-29 00:00:00 Kimberly Spire The book is divided into three sections. The first focuses on the militarization of American society starting with the Wilson Administration. Nisbet then explains how this directly is related to what he calls the "New Absolutism" which he explains in the second section. This absolutism is the mentality that all matters 'go through' the state and that the national state is also the 'community'. This all leads to the final section which focuses on "The Loose Individual". Here is says, "Repeatedly in history the combination of war and political centralization leads to a fraying effect upon the social fabric. Threads are loosened by the tightening of power at the center." He then proceeds to explain this sort of 'anarchy' that has developed in the loosening of personal ties because of the imposition of the national state in everyone's lives and the culture of absolutism and warfare especially. This is a must read, mostly due to the observances of this chapter. I would also suggest reading this juxtaposed against Allan Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind." Nisbet directly challenges the main 'solution' Bloom argues for of how to solve the vacant thought and education found in higher ed.