| Description |
xxi, 642 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
First principles: three responses -- Conservatism defined / Russell Kirk -- Notes toward an empirical definition of conservatism / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- The recrudescent American conservatism / Frank S. Meyer -- The fundamentals: tradition, religion, morality, and the individual -- The dynamo and the virgin (1900) / Henry Adams -- From "Journalism and the higher law" / Walter Lippmann -- Materialism and idealism in American life / George Santayana -- From "American individualism" / Herbert Hoover -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- What I believe : Rousseau and religion / Irving Babbitt -- The choice before civilization / William Henry Chamberlin -- Foreword in the form of a letter to my children / Whittaker Chambers -- The most precious heirloom / Frank Chodorov -- E Pluribus Unum: the American consensus / John Courtney Murray -- From "The conservative affirmation" / Willmoore Kendall -- On the nature of civil and religious liberty: reflections on the centennial of the Gettysburg Address / Harry V. Jaffa -- The women's movement / Joan Didion -- Our ignorance / Allan Bloom -- Here comes the groom: a (conservative) case for gay marriage / Andrew Sullivan -- Affirmative action: the price of preference / Shelby Steele -- Can atheists be good citizens? / Richard John Neuhaus -- The Catholic ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Michael Novak -- The soul of man under secularism / Christopher Lasch -- Leadership failure and the loyalty trap / Glenn Loury -- Dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges / Antonin Scalia -- Liberty and power: the state and the free market -- The State / Randolph Bourne -- Our enemy, the state / Albert Jay Nock -- The great stereopticon / Richard Weaver -- The road ahead / John T. Flynn -- Capitalism and freedom / Milton Friedman -- "When virtue loses all her loveliness": some reflections on capitalism and "the free society" / Irving Kristol -- For a new liberty / Murray Rothbard -- Unsustainable liberalism / Patrick Deneen -- The ties that bind: the local and familiar -- Reconstructed but unregenerate / John Crowe Ransom -- The loss of community / Robert Nisbet -- The Southern tradition / Eugene Genovese -- Local knowledge in the age of information / Wendell Berry -- The exceptional nation: America and the world -- The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt -- Speech in the U.S. Senate on the League of Nations / Henry Cabot Lodge -- Giddy minds and foreign quarrels: an estimate of American foreign policy / Charles Beard -- The struggle for the world / James Burnham -- A foreign policy for Americans / Robert A. Taft -- The irony of American history / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Address to members of Parliament / Ronald Reagan -- The irony of Manifest Destiny / William Pfaff |
| Summary |
"What is American conservatism? What are its core beliefs and values? What answers can it offer to the fundamental questions we face in the twenty-first century about the common good and the meaning of freedom, the responsibilities of citizenship, and America's proper role in the world? As libertarians, neoconservatives, Never Trump-ers, and others battle over the label, this landmark collection offers an essential survey of conservative thought in the United States since 1900, highlighting the centrality of four key themes: the importance of tradition and the local, resistance to an ever-expanding state, opposition to the threat of tyranny at home and abroad, and free markets as the key to sustaining individual liberty. Andrew J. Bacevich's incisive selections reveal that American conservatism--in his words "more akin to an ethos or a disposition than a fixed ideology"--has hardly been a monolithic entity over the last 120 years, but rather has developed through fierce internal debate about basic political and social propositions. Well-known figures such as Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley are complemented here by important but less familiar thinkers such as Richard Weaver and Robert Nisbet, as well as writers not of the political right, like Randolph Bourne, Joan Didion, and Reinhold Niebuhr, who have been important influences on conservative thinking. More relevant than ever, this rich, too often overlooked vein of writing provides essential insights into who Americans are as a people and offers surprising hope, in a time of extreme polarization, for finding common ground. It deserves to be rediscovered by readers of all political persuasions." -- (Source of summary not specified) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-616) and index |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Bacevich, Andrew J., editor
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| LC no. |
2019943746 |
| ISBN |
9781598536560 (hardcover) |
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1598536567 (hardcover) |
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