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Author:
Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher:
Library of America
Date:
March 23, 2020
As the nation stands at a crossroads, Andrew J. Bacevich urges us to reexamine the ideas and values of the American conservative tradition.
What The Reviewers Say
Bacevich compiles a rich menu. So rich, however, that 'conservatism' comes close to being a classification that no longer classifies.
... speedy machines and lifted taboos and disenchantment long predate 1900. In fact, there is no obvious reason to trace this 'tradition' back to the turn of the 20th century rather than to either John Adams, the nation’s first great conservative, or to the founding of National Review magazine in 1955 or, perhaps, to the publication of Whittaker Chambers’s great memoir, Witness, in 1952.
Bacevich is not looking for agreement — this is neither an evangelistic credo nor a sort of Conservatism for Dummies. Rather, it is a collection of diverse thinkers generally inclined toward the causes of order and tradition, and the best articles have a solidity that can seem a bracing tonic for the present chaos.
... wide-ranging.
