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Book SynopsisOrganizing Against Democracy illuminates answers to the question of how far-right parties try to establish roots in democratic societies. Ellinas examines the local organizational 'lives' of three of the most extreme parties in Europe and the responses of democratic actors against them.Trade Review'This is a path-breaking study. Though we have long recognized that all politics are local, few, if any, scholars have examined far-right parties as local organizations. Ellinas provides extensive local interviews and event analyses that are deeply impressive on their own. But his greatest contribution is to use these primary sources as the foundation for a compelling argument about party success and failure. With strong implications for how institutional actors and local communities should react to the threats that the far-right presents, this book is not only very good, but also much needed.' Nancy Bermeo, Princeton University and University of Oxford'Many great studies of the far-right view this topic from the top down, and we need more work that looks at it from the ground up. This absorbing and impressively detailed book does exactly that. Ellinas clearly demonstrates that local-level organization, or the lack thereof, matters. For those concerned about the rise of extremism, this book also suggests, optimistically, that counter-mobilisation can make a difference.' Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London'In this clinical analysis of some of Europe's most openly racist and violent political movements, Antonis A. Ellinas makes a compelling case for a robust political and societal response … His exhaustive and meticulous research offers both a roadmap for those hoping to contain these forces, as well as a warning that dedicated right-wing extremists will remain an enduring feature of liberal democracy.' David Art, Tufts University, Massachusetts'Thanks to its fresh analytical perspective and meticulous research, Organizing against Democracy not only offers a landmark contribution on Greece's Golden Dawn, but also opens up a whole new line of investigation on European right-wing extremism. Unlike most scholars, Ellinas puts the local context front and center of his explanation of the rise of the extreme right, offering a uniquely rich set of empirical evidence. This careful and insightful close-range analysis greatly enhances our comparative understanding of this troubling phenomenon.' Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford'Parties' organizational set-up interacts with their strategies and electoral support, but few studies probe into this relationship. Ellinas deals with this subject through a detailed empirical analysis of the local organizational dynamics of select extreme radical right-wing parties in Europe, particularly Greece's Golden Dawn. He has completed a model investigation on which others should be encouraged to build.' Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, North Carolina'Ellinas delves where few have gone before: into the murky and dangerous internal politics of three extreme right-wing parties located across Europe. It is a forensic analysis of their internal organization and activities to try to determine what helps or hinders their growth. As such, this timely and important study provides warnings for the future of our democratic systems in periods of stress. This is high-quality political science.' Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics and Political Science'Challenges the predominant focus on national right-wing parties' endogenous characteristics, national electoral results, and extremist leaders.' T. D. Lancaster, Choice'Ellinas provides a timely and ambitious project and suggests ample avenues for future scholarship.' Trevor Allen, Perspectives on Politics'The strength of this book lies in the combination of national politics with the microdynamics of local development … the book fully convinces with its comprehensive framework, compelling argumentation, and clear writing style. Overall, Antonis Ellinas provides a seminal work on the organizational effectiveness of extreme rightwing parties. The book will be of interest to scholars of comparative (party) politics and of modern Greece.' Maik Fielitz, Journal of Modern Greek Studies'Many great studies of the far-right view this topic from the top down, and we need more work that looks at it from the ground up. This absorbing and impressively detailed book does exactly that. Ellinas clearly demonstrates that local-level organization, or the lack thereof, matters. For those concerned about the rise of extremism, this book also suggests, optimistically, that counter-mobilisation can make a difference.' Tim Bale, Sage JournalsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Extremist right-wing parties in Europe; 3. The organizational development of extremist right-wing parties; 4. The organizational development of the Golden Dawn; 5. Variation in local organizational development; 6. Endogenous drivers of local organizational development; 7. Electoral drivers of local organizational development; 8. The state and local organizational development; 9. Societal reactions and local organizational development; 10. The local development of extremist right-wing parties in Germany and Slovakia; 11. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisAmerican political thought was shaped by a unique combination of theoretical influences: republicanism, liberalism, and covenant theology. This reader shows how these influences came together. Organized chronologically from the Puritans'' arrival in the New World to the Civil War, each chapter includes carefully selected primary sources and substantial commentary to explain the historical context and significance of the excerpts. A coherent interpretative framework is offered by focusing the analysis on the different assumptions of the people - the republican understanding as a corporate whole and the liberal understanding as a multitude of individuals - that were intertwined during the founding. The book features, for the first time, two chapters on non-American authors, who capture the main tenets of republicanism and liberalism and were widely quoted in the era, as well as excerpts from lesser-known sources, including Puritan covenants, the first state constitutions, and Native AmerTrade Review'This valuable anthology connects primary texts of American political thought with key works of the European tradition. By focusing on the liberal, republican, and Puritan sources of the American founding period, Fumurescu and Schön provide the best introduction I know to the richness and diversity of our enduring national character. This book will be an invaluable instructional text for years to come.' Steven B. Smith, Yale University'This is a judiciously selected, well organized, and helpfully introduced anthology that should prove a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate teaching of the historical foundations of America's civic culture.' Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas, Austin'Alin Fumurescu and Anna Marisa Schön provide an excellent introduction to the foundations of American political thought with this collection of readings and commentary that showcases competing understandings of the American political order and contested notions of American exceptionalism. Beginning with the classical and modern sources of American political thought and concluding with Abraham Lincoln's profound reflections in the crucible of the Civil War, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.' Justin Buckley Dyer, University of MissouriTable of Contents1. Introduction – The People's Two Bodies; 2. Republicanism – The People 'Is'; 3. Liberalism – The People 'Are'; 4. The Puritans – The Bi-Dimensional Covenant; 5. Independence – The Negative Founding; 6. The Positive Founding (I): One People or Several Peoples? 7. The Positive Founding (II) – The People as One and Many; 8. The Whole and the Parties; 9. People That Were Left Behind; 10. The United States 'Is'.

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Book SynopsisThe failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism remains one of the most challenging problems of twentieth-century European history. The German Right, 19181930 sheds new light on this problem by examining the role that the non-Nazi Right played in the destabilization of Weimar democracy in the period before the emergence of the Nazi Party as a mass party of middle-class protest. Larry Eugene Jones identifies a critical divide within the German Right between those prepared to work within the framework of Germany''s new republican government and those irrevocably committed to its overthrow. This split was only exacerbated by the course of German economic development in the 1920s, leaving the various organizations that comprised the German Right defenceless against the challenge of National Socialism. At no point was the disunity of the non-Nazi Right in the face of Nazism more apparent than in the September 1930 Reichstag elections.Trade Review'This excellent study of the German National People's Party and the conservative Protestant milieu asks why German conservatism failed to adapt to Weimar democracy after 1919. By tracing the right over the long term, Jones deepens our understanding of its inability to provide what Nazism offered, the emotional commitment to national unity.' Shelley Baranowski, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Akron, Ohio'Larry Eugene Jones has long been in the front rank of historians of Weimar politics. His insightful new book on the German Right is a worthy companion to his earlier classic on the role of the nation's liberal parties in the rise of Nazism - and just as indispensable.' Peter Hayes, Professor Emeritus of German History, Northwestern University, Illinois'This book is essential reading on Weimar's experiment in democracy and on the strategy to 'tame' Hitler and the Nazis. Based on a prodigious array of archival sources, Jones shows how political history should be written, with due attention to continuity and rupture. A stunning achievement.' James Retallack, University of Toronto'This brings together a lifetime of research and the most advanced analysis of the democratic dilemma of German conservatism in the Weimar Republic. The failure to bridge the divide between political stabilization from the Right and outright national opposition prevented Weimar's transformation into a Tory Democracy. A timely reminder against the recent trend to write the 'history of democracy' with the politics left out.' Bernd Weisbrod, University of Göttingen'Larry Eugene Jones's remarkable study of the German Right in the Weimar Republic constitutes an authoritative English-language history of this tremendously important and consequential subject. Based on a vast array of source material compiled over years of research from over thirty different public and private archives, as well as hundreds of other sources, it is hard to imagine another scholar matching the erudition that Jones offers his readers on this subject.' Barry Jackisch, German Studies Review'… Jones presents the most detailed and comprehensive history of 'the Right' in Weimar to date … His [narration] closely follows the twists and turns of the party's fortunes, and there is no doubt that this book will be the standard treatment of the political history of the German Right … this will remain an indispensable point of reference for historians of Weimar …' Frank Biess, H-Soz-Kult'… the broad contours of this story are well known to specialists, [but] the richness of Jones's research offers up new insights … a remarkable scholarly monograph.' Anthony McElligott, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction. Setting the context; 1. Revolution and realignment; 2. Infrastructure of the German right; 3. Forging a conservative synthesis; 4. Growth and consolidation; 5. The radical right; 6. 1923: a missed opportunity?; 7. From triumph to schism; 8. Stabilization from the right?; 9. Paladins of the right; 10. The forces of national revival; 11. The road back to power; 12. The burden of responsibility; 13. From defeat to crisis; 14. Reverberations and realignment; 15. The chimera of right-wing unity; 16. Schism and fragmentation; 17. The Brüning gambit; 18. The September earthquake; Conclusion. The price of disunity.

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Book SynopsisThis abridgement of Reflections on the Revolution in France preserves the dynamism of Edmund Burke's polemic while excising a number of detail-laden passages that are of less interest to modern readers. Brian R. Clack's introduction offers a compelling overview of the text and explores the consistency and coherence of Burke's views on revolution. Burke's critique of revolutionary politics is illuminated further by the extensive supplementary materials collected in a number of themed appendices. These include a selection of background material essential for an understanding of the Reflections, an overview of Burke's response to the American Revolution, a sampling of his earliest and later views on the French Revolution, selections from Burke's writings on reform, passages from A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, and a representative sampling of contemporary critical responses to the Reflections.Table of Contents Appendix A: Background Materials 1. Sir George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, from The Character of a Trimmer (1688) 2. The Bill of Rights, 1689 3. Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) 4. Declaration of the Rights of Men and of Citizens (1789) 5. Richard Price, from A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789) 6. Congratulatory Address from the Revolution Society to the National Assembly of France, Nov. 4, 1789 Appendix B: Burke and the American Revolution Appendix C: Burke's First Responses to the French Revolution: "Gazing with Astonishment" 1. From a Letter to the Earl of Charlemont, 9 August 1789 2. From a Letter to Charles-Jean-François Depont, November 1789 3. From "Substance of the Speech on the Army Estimates", 9 February 1790 Appendix D: Burke's Later Thoughts on the Revolution: "At War with an Armed Doctrine" 1. From Thoughts on French Affairs(1791) 2. From "Remarks on the Policy of the Allies" (1793) 3. From Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795-1797) Appendix E: Burke on Reform and Innovation 1. From "Speech on St. George's Fields Massacre", 8 March 1769 2. From Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) 3. From "Speech on the Bill for Explaining the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels", March 7, 1771 4. From "Speech on Presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th February, 1780) a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and the Economical Reformation of the Civil and other Establishments" (1780) 5. From "Speech on a Motion Made in the House of Commons, May 7, 1782, for a Committee to Inquire into the State of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament" (1782) 6. From An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791) 7. From "A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the Subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" (1792) 8. From "A Letter to a Noble Lord" (1796) Appendix F: Burke on Rousseau and the "Philosophy of Vanity" 1. From "A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly in Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs" (1791) Appendix G: Contemporary Responses to Burke's Censure of the French Revolution 1. The Mercer-Burke Correspondence, February 1790 2. Philip Francis, from a Letter to Edmund Burke, 3 November 1790 3. Frances Burney (Madame D'Arblay), from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (1778-1840) 4. Richard Price, from A Discourse on the Love of our Country (Fourth edition) (1790) 5. Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) 6. Catherine Macaulay, from Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France (1790) 7. Joseph Priestley, from Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) 8. Thomas Paine, from Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (1791) 9. Jane Burke, from a Letter to William Burke, 21 March 1791 (documenting King George III's reaction to Burke's Reflections) 10. Thomas Jefferson, from a Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 11 May 1791 11. James Mackintosh, from Vindiciae Gallicae: Defence of the French Revolution and its English Admirers, against the Accusations of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1791) 12. The Mackintosh-Burke Correspondence, December 1796 Appendix H: "Delivered Over to Infamy at the End of a Long Life" 1. Selections from Burke's two speeches on the Quebec Bill, May 1791

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Book SynopsisAn important new book by one of the Britain's great liberal thinkers, Hearts and Minds is part memoir, part political history and part history of ideas. In it, former Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin explains how the central ideas and policies of the modern Conservative party came into being, how they have played out over the period from Mrs Thatcher to Mrs May, and what needs to happen next in order to make the country a better place to live. Far from being a sugar-coated version of events, Letwin tells a story that he hopes will persuade readers that politicians are capable of recognising their mistakes and learning from them – and will show that social and economic liberalism, if correctly conceived, are capable of addressing the issues that confront us today. The book also describes Letwin’s own journey from a remarkable childhood with American academic parents, via Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit, into the very centre of first the Conservative—Liberal Democrat coalition, and then the Cameron government, where, as Minister for Government Policy and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, every piece of government policy crossed his desk. It includes Letwin’s personal reflections on two devastating electoral events: the EU referendum and the general election of June 2017.

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Book SynopsisAs the party that has won wars, reversed recessions and held prime ministerial power more times than any other, the Conservatives have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Sir Robert Peel to David Cameron, via Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher - have steered the party vessel with enormously varying degrees of success.;With the widening of the franchise, revolutionary changes to social values and the growing ubiquity of the media, the requirements, techniques and goals of Conservative leadership since the party's nineteenth-century factional breakaway have been forced to evolve almost beyond recognition - and not all its leaders have managed to keep up.;This comprehensive and enlightening book considers the attributes and achievements of each leader in the context of their respective time and diplomatic landscape, offering a compelling analytical framework by which they may be judged, detailed personal biographies from some of the country's foremost political critics, and exclusive interviews with former leaders themselves.; An indispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British Conservative Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance through the prism of those who created it.;Contributing authors include Matthew d'Ancona, Tim Bale, Stuart Ball, Jim Buller, John Campbell, John Charmley, Charles Clarke, Mark Davies, Patrick Diamond, David Dutton, Dr Mark Garnett, Richard A. Gaunt, William Hague, Angus Hawkins, Timothy Heppell, Andrew Holt, Michael Howard, Toby S. James, Nigel Keohane, Jo-Anne Nadler, T. G. Otte, Anne Perkins, Robert Saunders, Anthony Seldon, Andrew Taylor, D. R. Thorpe and Alan Wager.Trade Review'This is a riveting book. It succeeds as a work of history - the best authors on their topic of expert knowledge. It succeeds in understanding the Conservative Party, its flexibility and understanding of power. And, most interestingly, it succeeds as a reflection on political leadership. Read this if your side has just lost an election and wants to win the next one. Read it if your side has just won an election and wants to avoid losing the next one. Read it if you don't have a side.' - Daniel Finkelstein; 'I found this book a fascinating read because it is such a distinctively political analysis of various Conservative leaders and concentrates on their political successes or failures as leaders of a party. This gives an intriguing insight into an essential element of any political leader's career, which is usually only written about as background to the events of the 'reign'. I found the analysis absorbing.' - Ken Clarke; 'Puts David Cameron's 2015 victory in context - and shows him to be among the greatest winners in the long history of the Conservative Party.' - Boris Johnson

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJason Chaffetz first fought the Deep State from the inside. Now he has written a powerful guide to how it works and how to fight it. The Deep State is not to be missed. — Peter Schweizer on The Deep State Jason Chaffetz captures the reality of disaster liberalism in this fascinating new book. It’s true, Democrats never let a crisis go to waste. They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste illuminates the tactics, shares the stories, provides unique insight, and gives you the perspective so you can recognize what’s happening in real time. Once you see what they do, and how they do it, you will never look at Washington, D.C., the same. — Sean Hannity on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste makes clear that the left has two sets of rules: one for themselves and one for everybody else. If you don’t buy their vision of an all-encompassing government, they deem you morally insufficient. That’s reason alone to deny them the power they seek. — Ben Shapiro on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste shares the stories and provides true insights like you’ve never seen before. — Nicole Saphier, MD, on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste In Power Grab, Jason Chaffetz takes us along his path toward a disturbing realization. Even as a seasoned political insider, he was taken aback by the post-Trump American reality in which news was quickly replaced by political theater and little was as it appeared to be. There are lessons for all of us, if we are willing to open our eyes. — Sharyl Attkisson on Power Grab Power Grab will leave you wanting more. Long after you’ll be thinking about the implications of what Jason Chaffetz reveals in this stunning new account of Washington, D.C., politics. Readers will never again take Democratic narratives at face value. The duplicity, the hypocrisy, and the flippancy with which they sacrifice the very foundational elements of our government must be fought on every level. — Sara A. Carter on Power Grab

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Book SynopsisHistory, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals. In their search for a persuasive and wide appeal, conservatives depended until at least the 1960s upon history and historians to provide conservative concepts with authority and authenticity. Beginning with the Great War in Britain and the Second World War in America, conservative historians participated actively and influentially in debates about the heart, soul, and especially the mind of conservatism. Particular emphasis is placed on four historians in Britain-F. J. C. Hearnshaw, Keith Feiling, Arthur Bryant, and Herbert Butterfield-and three in America-Daniel Boorstin, Peter Viereck, and Russell Kirk-who developed conservative responses to unprecedented and threatening events both at home and abroad. These historians shared basic assumptions about human nature and society, but theTrade ReviewA compelling examination of the work and influence of several British and American historians on convervatism during the twentieth century. * British Scholar *A dense, complex and penetrating book that explores a neglected area of 20th century history * A.W. Purdue, Times Higher Education Supplement *...a welcome contribution to the existing literature on intellectual history in Anglo-American in the twentieth century * Rachel S. Turner, Contemporary British History *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, POLITICAL THOUGHT, AND CONSERVATISM ; PART II: THE INTER-WAR DECADES IN BRITAIN ; 1. Conservatism as a Crusade: F.J.C. Hearnshaw ; 2. The Attraction of Tory Democracy: Keith Feiling ; 3. The Phenomenon of Arthur Bryant: Patriotism, Conservatism, and the Greater Public ; 4. Arthur Bryant, Appeasement and Anti-Semitism ; PART III: POST-WAR BRITAIN ; 5. Christianity and Conservative Historiography : Hebert Butterfield, Cambridge, and the Greater World ; PART IV: POST-WAR AMERICA ; 6. Conservative History and Social Criticism, 1941 through the 1960s ; 7. The Americanization of the British Conservative Mind ; 8. Conservatism and Exceptionalism ; Epilogue: The Future of the Conservative Past ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSince 1918, Czechoslovakia has been known as East-Central Europe''s most devoted democracy, an outpost of Western values in the East. While the country has had more democratic experience than its neighbors, this book argues that the claim that Czechs are native democrats, devoted to liberal ideas, emerged from nationalist myth. Battle for the Castle tells the story of that myth''s creation during the First World War, used to persuade the Great Powers to create Czechoslovakia out of pieces of Austria-Hungary. Tomáš Masaryk and Edvard Beneš, the two academics crafting the myth and employing it for wartime propaganda, became Czechoslovakia''s first president and prime minister. They tried to use the myth to outmaneuver political opponents at home and Czechoslovakia''s enemies abroad. Those enemies, and the European Great Powers, also conducted their own propaganda campaigns targeting Czechoslovakia as a symbol of the postwar order. At home, while proclaiming themselves the protectors of Trade Reviewfinely researched ... an erudite deconstruction of political myths deliberately created and manipulated for the political end of building a nationâs identity, reputation and power abroad among influential westerners. * Cathleen Giustino, European History Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Golden Republic ; Chapter One Myth and Wartime ; Chapter Two The Castle ; Chapter Three Battles of the Legend-Makers ; Chapter Four Difficulties Abroad ; Chapter Five A Time of Iron and Fire ; Epilogue ; Abbreviations and Definitions ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisNeoconservatism evolved in the USA from the anti-communist coalition that dominated liberalism from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. In this book, Ehrman discusses how big an influence the group has had on American politics, foreign policy in particular, through the decades since then.

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Book SynopsisTraces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster to William F Buckley, Jr and Irving Kristol. The argues that conservatism has assumed a variety of forms, because it has been chiefly reactive, responding to perceived threats and challenges at different moments in the nation's history.Trade Review"'Author and professor Allit probes the origins of American conservatism from a time when 'conservative' was a descriptor, not a movement... Cutting across the stereotypes of present-day conservatism, this nuanced, thoughtful history should educate the unaffiliated and help the disillusioned recover.' Publishers Weekly"

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Book SynopsisThe United States of 1960 was a First World nation, 90 per cent of whose people traced their ancestry to Europe. The deconstruction of America has begun. By 2050, Americans of European descent will be a minority in the United States. 100 million Hispanics will be living here. This book demonstrates that this is what is happening to America.

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Book SynopsisWalter LaFeber's timely analysis looks at the ways that triumphant capitalism, coupled with high-tech telecommunications, is conquering the nations of the world, one mindone pair of feetat a time.Trade Review"A fascinating book on the dynamics of sport, culture and capitalism in an era of American dominance." Time Out

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Book SynopsisFrom America's #1 progressive radio host, the idealogical heir to his influential The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight More than three million listeners tune in every weekday to hear what Thom Hartmann has to say about the state of our world. Now, as the first decade of the twenty-first century closes amid economic collapse and the seeming ruin of the American Dream, America's #1 rated progressive radio host sounds an urgent call to arms for building a better, more sustainable world-while there's still time. Offering not just an indictment of the failures that have courted economic, demographic, and environmental ruin, Hartmann also outlines five critical personal and policy solutions to bring us back from the brink. Threshold-like Jared Diamond's Collapse-is radical but rooted in common sense, illuminating the necessary next steps in the evolution of mainstream thinking.

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Book SynopsisThis study of the political philosophers, Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss, provides a comprehensive comparison of their thought and its influence on contemporary American conservatism.Trade Review“This is a thoughtful book that not only usefully maps out some of the more obscure and neglected territory in twentieth-century intellectual history, but itself constitutes, to some extent, an inquiry into the problems and pathologies of modernity, and of contemporary American conservatism.”—Reviews in American History

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Book SynopsisDennis O'Keeffe is Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Buckingham, UK.Trade Review"An invigorating account that repeatedly places Burke in a context that is relevant for the present day. Written in an accessible style, O'Keeffe's book offers a reading that is at once academic and infused with a powerful moral strain." --Jeremy Black "The volumes in this timely series comprise the most comprehensive body of material on conservative and libertarian thought yet published in a single project devoted to the subject. The series will prove an indispensable tool not only for those concerned with the history of political thought but also for those who confront the challenging task of constructing a viable contemporary conservative identity. Professor Meadowcroft had a difficult editorial task, to which he has responded with a judicious choice of thinkers and topics." Noel O'Sullivan, Professor of Political Philosophy, the University of Hull, UK. "In this eminently readable, intellectually stimulating and compact volume Professor Dennis O'Keeffe does an excellent job of introducing us to Edmund Burke, his life and family, the essence of his most notable works, his parliamentary career and manifesto writing and how apparent contradictions in his own life and philosophy are reconciled in his intellectual and political development." -Rodney Atkinson, Fellow at the University of Buckingham"O'Keeffe is at his best in ‘extrapolating' Burke into more recent times...That is what makes it such a joy to read." -John Clarke, Quadrant"Never in the field of Burkean studies has so much been said in so few words. O'Keeffe displays an enviable sense of structure, which enables him to combine in a small space a comprehensive exegesis of Burke's thought with a sweeping overview of secondary sources - and still have enough left over to show how Burke's ideas apply to today's world." -Alex Boot, The Salisbury Review"For students and scholars, O'Keeffe presents the life and ideas of conservative British thinker Edmund Burke (1729-1797) within historical context. He explains Burke's philosophical contributions to conservative thinking, the reception by his contemporaries, and implications for politics and policy today. Discussion includes his ideas about empire, Ireland and England, relations with North American settlements, India, property, the de-sanctification of humanity, and his opposition to the French Revolution, as well as his many writings, including Reflections on the Revolution in France." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Edmund Burke: The Contradictions of Benevolence; Chapter 2. Genial Olympian: Burke and his Opinions; Chapter 3. Great Acclaim, Some Derision and Much Controversy. How Burke was Received; Chapter 4. Under Burkean Eyes: Burke and Our Present Blessings and Woes.

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Book SynopsisWritten in limpid prose, these autobiographical essays provide an insight into the mind and personality of Roger Scruton. This is a quiet, witty but also serious and moving account of the ways in which life brought him to think what he thinks, and to be what he is. His moving vignettes of his childhood and later influences illuminate this book.Trade Review"A practised and elegant writer The Independant"

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