Death of the First Conservative

"Viereck also was a political thinker, whose provocative 1949 book, 'Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Revolt,' defined the modern conservative movement.
"'This was the book which, more than any other of the early postwar era, created the new conservatism as a self-conscious intellectual force,' historian George H. Nash wrote in his 1976 book, 'The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America.'
"'It was this book which boldly used the word "conservatism" in its title—the first such book after 1945. At least as much as any of his contemporaries,' Nash wrote, 'Peter Viereck popularized the term "conservative" and gave the nascent movement its label.'"

The Los Angeles Times runs an obit for Mt Holoyke history professor and poet Peter R. Viereck.