How Great the Triumph: James Burnham, Anti-Communism, and the Conservative Movement - Softcover

Smant, Kevin J.

9780819184641: How Great the Triumph: James Burnham, Anti-Communism, and the Conservative Movement

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819184640 ISBN 13: 9780819184641

Publisher: University Press of America, 1992

James Burnham began his intellectual career in the 1930s as a Trotskyist. However, world events and his personal experiences within the Trotskyist movement convinced him that all forms of Marxism must be totalitarian, and he left the world of Marxism in 1940. This book focuses especially upon Mr. Burnham's career as a senior editor with William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review, putting him within the context of the conservative intellectual movement as a whole. Burnham, despite what he called his 'hard' anticommunist public stance, served as a moderating pragmatic force within National Review and American conservatism. He urged fellow conservatives to accept a minimum welfare state, to work within the established two-party system, and to adopt a tough but realistic foreign policy. Contents: From Left to ?; Lenin's Heir and Beyond; Burning His Bridges; Whither Conservatism?; The Ideology of Western Suicide; Sectarian and Doctrinaire Clannishness; Mr. Burnham; Epilogue; Selected Bibliography.

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About the Author:

Javier Alcade, who is a member of the political science faculty at the University of Louisville, was advisor to the External Debt Committee of the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance in Lima.

Review:

This book stretches over an impressive range of both theoretical and empirical material. (Goran Hyden, distinguished Professor emeritus, University of Florida)

This book stretches over an impressive range of both theoretical and empirical material. (Goran Hyden, distinguished Professor emeritus, University of Florida)

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