The Portable conservative reader
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The Portable conservative reader
(The Viking portable library)
Penguin Books, 1982
- pbk.
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Note
Bibliography: p. [711]-712
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a wide ranging anthology of conservative thought in the English and American traditions. It includes essays, poetry, and fiction from Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli, T.S. Eliot, Alexander Hamilton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Adams and Irving Kristol.
Table of Contents
- The tension of order and freedom
- American liberty under law
- the reply of poets
- Southern conservatism
- American democratic leveling
- against utilitarian radicalism
- progress and human frailty
- legal and historical conservatism
- conservative impulses amid American materialism
- the crumbling country house
- the fabulists
- critical conservatism
- conservatism between two wars
- a bent world
- women's conservative vision
- the wisdom of our ancestors
- resistance and hope.
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