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Pragmatic Conservatism : Edmund Burke and His American Heirs by Robert J. Lacey is a politics available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke. Beginning with an exegesis of Burke's thought, it goes on to show how three twentieth-century thinkers who are not generally recognized as conservatives—Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck—carried on the Burkean tradition and adapted it to American democracy. Pragmatic conservatives posit that people, sinfu

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Robert J. Lacey
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Springer [distributor
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781137592958
Category
politics
Subjects
Political Science, History, Philosophy
Updated
2026-03-25

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