Maciag, Drew, 1954-
Edmund Burke in America the contested career of the father of modern conservatism / [electronic resource] : Drew Maciag. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013. - xiv, 285 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Conservatism--History.--United States
Political science--Philosophy.--United States
Electronic books.
JC573.2.U6 / M335 2013eb
320.520973
Edmund Burke in America the contested career of the father of modern conservatism / [electronic resource] : Drew Maciag. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013. - xiv, 285 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Conservatism--History.--United States
Political science--Philosophy.--United States
Electronic books.
JC573.2.U6 / M335 2013eb
320.520973