Abstract

Dominican conservative thought has a continuity. Its lines can be traced and its historical evolution can be followed from the attack by Bobadilla and Santana on the Duartian liberal enterprise to our days of vindication of Joaquín Balaguer and his political doctrine. Within these lines, the historical aspect has been essential. Ours is a people that likes history. Each year the ineffable José Rafael Lantigua registers the best-selling Dominican books and the history books are usually at the top, but that eagerness of the scarce Dominican reading public for history is generally of an indiscriminate nature:  almost everything is read as Manuel Núñez and Róberto Cassá coexist.