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

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Autor principal: Maciag, Drew, 1954-
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.