LEADER 04557nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910452587903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6787-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467875 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039098 035 $a(OCoLC)830628316 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10669198 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835257 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11498455 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835257 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11008445 035 $a(PQKB)11608385 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138444 035 $a(OCoLC)966926221 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51846 035 $a(DE-B1597)478592 035 $a(OCoLC)979576434 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467875 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138444 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10669198 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681700 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039098 100 $a20121003d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEdmund Burke in America$b[electronic resource] $ethe contested career of the father of modern conservatism /$fDrew Maciag 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50418-0 311 $a0-8014-4895-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aThe 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. 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 Edmund Burke in America, 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.Throughout, 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. 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPolitical science$zUnited States$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConservatism$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 676 $a320.520973 700 $aMaciag$b Drew$f1954-$0478727 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452587903321 996 $aEdmund Burke in America$9263395 997 $aUNINA