The Reactionary Mind : Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin


Corey. Robin
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2011.
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1 online resource (305 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Epigraph; Introduction; Part 1 Profiles in Reaction; 1. Conservatism and Counterrevolution; 2. The First Counterrevolutionary; 3. Garbage and Gravitas; 4. Inside Out; 5. The Ex-Cons; 6. Affirmative Action Baby; Part 2 Virtues of Violence; 7. A Color-Coded Genocide; 8. Remembrance of Empires Past; 9. Protocols of Machismo; 10. Potomac Fever; 11. Easy to Be Hard; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. - Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is ""boring,"" said the founding father of the American right. ""Devoting your life to it,"" as conservatives do, ""is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex."" With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution, Robin argues that the right is fundamentally in
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