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Edmund Burke in America : the contested career of the father of modern conservatism /

"The statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke (1729-1797) is a touchstone for modern conservatism in the United States, and his name and his writings have been invoked by figures ranging from the arch Federalist George Cabot to the twentieth-century political philosopher Leo Strauss. Bu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maciag, Drew, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a search for icons
  • Burke in brief : a "philosophical" primer
  • Old seeds, new soil : the land of Paine
  • John and J.Q. Adams : federalist persuasions
  • Democratic America : the ethos of liberalism
  • American Whigs : a conservative response
  • The Gilded Age : eclectic interpretations
  • Theodore Roosevelt : blazing forward, looking backward
  • Woodrow Wilson : confronting American maturity
  • Modern times : conjunctions and consensus
  • Natural law : a neo-traditionalist revival
  • The Cold War : existential threat redux
  • Contemporary conservatives : victories and illusions
  • Conclusion : a world without fathers.