The Conservative Affirmation
eBook - ePub

The Conservative Affirmation

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Conservative Affirmation

About this book

Maverick political scientist Willmoore Kendall predicted the triumph of conservatism. Upon the 1963 publication of Kendall's The Conservative Affirmation, his former Yale student William F. Buckley, Jr. called him "one of the most superb and original political analysts of the 20th century, " but even Buckley shook his head at what appeared to be Kendall's "baffling optimism." During the 60's, Kendall stood apart from the mainstream conservative movement which he accused of being anti-populist and of "storming American public opinion from without" by wrongly assuming that the American people were essentially corrupt and "always ready to sell their votes to the highest bidder." Kendall believed that Americans would come to actively realize the conservatism which they had always actually lived.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Foreword: The Philosopher of Right-Wing Populism
  5. Publisher’s Preface
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: What Is Conservatism?
  9. Chapter 2: The Two Majorities in American Politics
  10. Chapter 3: McCarthyism: The Pons Asinorum of Contemporary Conservatism
  11. Chapter 4: Freedom of Speech in America
  12. Chapter 5: The Social Contract: The Ultimate Issue between Liberalism and Conservatism
  13. Chapter 6: Conservatism and the “Open Society”
  14. Chapter 7: A Conservative Statement on Christian Pacifism
  15. Chapter 8: Conservative Appraisals of Recent Works on Politics
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. About the Author
  18. Index
  19. Copyright