Edmund Burke in America : the contested career of the father of modern conservatism / / Drew Maciag.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 285 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.