Edmund Burke in America [electronic resource] : the contested career of the father of modern conservatism / Drew Maciag.
By: Maciag, Drew.
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BookPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013Description: xiv, 285 p.Subject(s): Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 | Conservatism -- United States -- History | Political science -- United States -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 320.520973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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