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

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Author / Creator:	Maciag, Drew, 1954- author.
Imprint:	Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2013]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Burke, Edmund, -- 1729-1797. Burke, Edmund, -- 1729-1797. Conservatism -- United States -- History. Political science -- United States -- Philosophy. Conservatism. Political science -- Philosophy. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11176453

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ISBN:	9780801467868 0801467861 9780801448959 080146787X 9780801467875 0801448956
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 09/30/2020).
Summary:	"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. But Burke's legacy has not been consistently associated with conservative thought, nor has the richness and subtlety of his political vision been fully appreciated by either his American admirers or detractors. In Edmund Burke in America, Drew Maciag traces Burke's reception and reputation in the United States, from the contest of ideas between Burke and Thomas Paine in the Revolutionary period, to the Progressive Era (when Republicans and Democrats alike invoked Burke's wisdom), to his apotheosis within the modern conservative movement. Throughout, Maciag is sensitive to the relationship between American opinions about Burke and the changing circumstances of American life. The dynamic tension between conservative and liberal attitudes in American society surfaced in debates over the French Revolution, Jacksonian democracy, Gilded Age values, Progressive reform, Cold War anticommunism, and post-1960s liberalism. The post-World War II rediscovery of Burke by New Conservatives and their adoption of him as the "father of conservatism" provided an intellectual foundation for the conservative ascendancy of the late twentieth century. Highlighting the Burkean influence on such influential writers as George Bancroft, E.L. Godkin, and Russell Kirk, Maciag also explores the underappreciated impact of Burke's thought on four U.S. presidents: John Adams and John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. Through close and keen readings of political speeches, public lectures, and works of history and political theory and commentary, Maciag offers a sweeping account of the American political scene over two centuries."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Edmund Burke in America Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2013] 9780801448959 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard no.:	10.7591/9780801467875

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.

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

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