Edmund Burke in America the contested career of the father of modern conservatism /
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.