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http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/dec/01/00023/

"Left Turn Ahead -- William Appleman Williams and Gabriel Kolko impart vital lessons for the Right" by Dylan Hales.
Conservatives have long taken for granted their place on the right of the political spectrum. But as the organized Right, in the form of the Republican Party, has hitched its wagon to big business and big government in the decades since World War II, some unconventional voices on the American Left have spoken up for the traditionally conservative causes of decentralism, prudent government, and foreign-policy restraint. This “left conservatism” owes its name to Norman Mailer, but it has deep roots in American history. And now that so much of the official Right has been co-opted by advocates of a materialistic consumer culture—to be maintained by a military empire—the time may be ripe for conservatives to look in a new direction.

They might begin by turning to William Appleman Williams and Gabriel Kolko. Williams, the pre-eminent historian of American diplomacy, served as ideological godfather to the New Left of the 1960s and ’70s while teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kolko, who was influenced by Williams, has long been an incisive critic of the Progressive Era and its relationship to the American empire. Both men spent their entire careers on the Left, yet their arguments more often parallel the small-town conservatism of the Old Right than the corporate ideology of conventional liberalism.

Other reading:
"The Progressive Era" by William L. Anderson
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson132.html

"The Republican Charade: Lincoln and His Party" by Clyde Wilson
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson20.html

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