{"product_id":"edmund-burke-in-america-the-contested-career-of-the-father-of-modern-conservatism-paperback-softback-9781501705717","title":"Edmund Burke in America; The Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501705717","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEdmund Burke in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDrew Maciag (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501705717\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 January 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican conservatives celebrate Edmund Burke, but according to historian Drew Maciag, the British philosopher-politician might be uncomfortable with the company he's posthumously been keeping.... Maciag finds Burke far more advanced in his thinking than previously credited.\u003c\/p\u003e - David Luhrssen (Shepherd Express) \u003cp\u003eIn his engaging if somewhat ironic book, Maciag surveys the fall and rise of Burke's influence in America, beginning with the post-Revolutionary era.... The point is less to provide an exhaustive monograph tracing and assessing the ways in which Americans engaged with Burke than to illustrate how different evocations of his writings reflect major aspects of American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e - Jack Rakove (New England Quarterly) \u003cp\u003eMaciag highlights persuasively three post-Second World War intellectual currents which brought Edmund Burke's political thought to the fore of conservatism.... In summary, Maciag identifies seven elements in Burke's thought that made him attractive to American conservatives.\u003c\/p\u003e (Canadian Journal of Political Science)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e But Burke's legacy has neither 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 \u003ci\u003eEdmund Burke in America\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: In Search of Icons1. Burke in Brief: A \"Philosophical\" Primer\u003cb\u003ePart I: Early America\u003c\/b\u003e2. Old Seeds, New Soil: The Land of Paine3. Federalist Persuasions: John and J. Q. Adams4. Democratic America: The Ethos of Liberalism5. American Whigs: A Conservative Response\u003cb\u003ePart II: Transition to Modern America\u003c\/b\u003e6. The Gilded Age: Eclectic Interpretations7. Theodore Roosevelt: Blazing Forward, Looking Backward8. Woodrow Wilson: Confronting American Maturity\u003cb\u003ePart III: Postwar America\u003c\/b\u003e9. Modern Times: Conjunctions and Consensus10. Natural Law: A Neo-traditionalist Revival11. The Cold War: Existential Threat Redux12. Contemporary Conservatives: Victories and IllusionsConclusion: A World without Fathers\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607765709080,"sku":"9781501705717","price":17.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/edmund-burke-in-america-the-contested-career-of-the-father-of-modern-conservatism-paperback-softback-9781501705717","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}