Nisbet, Robert A. Conservatism: Dream and Reality. University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
Robert-Adam, who assumed the surnames of Christopher and then Nisbet-Hamilton.
Soon thereafter, he was appointed to the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Chair at Columbia.
He assumed the surname of Christopher in lieu of his patronymic in 1835 when his wife Lady Mary Bruce (see below) inherited the Christopher estates at Bloxholm and Wellvale in Lincolnshire.
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He considers himself a “pluralist” in the tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, Robert Nisbet, Bertrand de Juvenal, Russell Kirk, Alasdair MacIntyre, and others often labeled conservative but most concerned with reinvigorating a diversity of local associations as necessary for human flourishing and the taming of political power.