The conservative sensibility
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316480918
- ISBN: 9781549148682
- ISBN: 9781549195235
- ISBN: 0316480932
- ISBN: 9780316480932
- ISBN: 0316480932
- ISBN: 9780316480932
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Physical Description:
print
xxxvii, 600 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Hachette Books, 2019.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-560) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The founders' epistemological assertion : they knew what can be known -- The progressives' revision : an emancipation (from natural rights) proclamation -- Progressivism's institutional consequences : the presidency triumphant, the administrative state rampant, Congress dormant -- The judicial supervision of democracy : difficulties with the "counter-majoritarian difficulty" -- Political economy : rescuing the great enrichment from the fatal conceit -- Culture and opportunity : the scissors that shredded old convictions -- The aims of education : talents for praising and for pessimism -- Going abroad : a creedal nation in a world on probation -- Welcoming whirl : conservatism without theism -- Borne back : the quest for a useable past. |
Summary, etc.: | "A reflection on American conservatism, examining how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition--one that now finds itself under threat, both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party"-- |
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Subject: | United States Politics and government Conservatism United States Politics and government Conservatism United States History |
Genre: | History. |
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