American conservative thought in the twentieth century /
Buckley, William F.(William Frank),1925-2008.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,
c2011.
Originally published: Did you ever see a dream walking? : American conservative thought in the twentieth century. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
Part One. The historical and intellectual background. The convenient state / Garry Wills -- E Pluribus Unum: the American consensus / John Courtney Murray, S. J. -- The unwritten Constitution / L. Brent Bozell -- The recrudescent American conservatism / Frank S. Meyer -- Part Two. The limitations of state. The masses in representative democracy / Michael Oakeshott -- Anarchist's progress / Albert Jay Nock -- Economics in one lesson / Henry Hazlitt -- Freedom and the planned economy / Max Eastman -- Capitalism and freedom: a concluding note / Milton Friedman -- Part Three. Contemporary challenges and the social order. On the nature of civil and religious liberty / Harry V. Jaffa -- Democracy: the two majorities / Willmoore Kendall -- Communism: the struggle for the world / James Burnham -- Race: claims, rights, and prospects / Ernest van den Haag -- Planned mediocrity in the public schools / Mortimer Smith -- The city: some myths about diversity / Jane Jacobs -- The problem of the new order / Russell Kirk -- The new scholarship: the relevance of "The Reactionaries" / Hugh Kenner -- Part Four. The relevance of social science. The new political science / Leo Strauss -- Sociology and the theory of progress / Christopher Dawson -- The nature of modernity / Eric Voegelin -- Burke and radical freedom / Jeffrey Hart -- Part Five. The spiritual crisis. The direct glance / Whittaker Chambers -- Isaiah's Job / Albert Jay Nock -- Christmas in Christendom / Frederick D. Wilhelmsen -- Epilogue / Whittaker Chambers.
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