The Portable conservative reader

Author(s)

• Kirk, Russell

Bibliographic Information

The Portable conservative reader

edited, with an introduction and notes, by Russell Kirk

（The Viking portable library）

Penguin Books, 1982

• pbk.

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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Details

• NCID: BA36444495
• ISBN:
  • 0140150951
• LCCN: 81015381
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
• Pages/Volumes: xl, 723 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JC131
  • DC19 : 320.5/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Political science
  • LCSH : Conservatism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03518891