Edmund Burke in America : the contested career of the father of modern conservatism / Drew Maciag.
"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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| Published: | Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : in search of icons
- Burke in brief : a "philosophical" primer
- I. Early America
- Old seeds, new soil : the land of Paine
- Federalist persuasions : John and J.Q. Adams
- Democratic America : the ethos of liberalism
- American Whigs : a conservative response
- II. Transition to modern America
- The Gilded Age : eclectic interpretations
- Theodore Roosevelt : blazing forward, looking backward
- Woodrow Wilson : confronting American maturity
- III. Postwar America
- 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.