Conservatism

The Fight for a TraditionBy Edmund FawcettNarrated by Jim Lee

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Length17h 35m

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This engaging audiobook narrated by Jim Lee traces the history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard Right For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, conservatives have continued to fight with each other about how far to compromise with liberalism and democracy—or which values to defend and how. In Conservatism, Edmund Fawcett provides a gripping account of this conflicted history, clarifies key ideas, and illuminates quarrels within the Right today. Focusing on the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, Fawcett's vivid narrative covers thinkers and politicians. They include the forerunners James Madison, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre; early friends and foes of capitalism; defenders of religion; and builders of modern parties, such as William McKinley and Lord Salisbury. The book chronicles the cultural critics and radical disruptors of the 1920s and 1930s, recounts how advocates of laissez-faire economics broke the post 1945 consensus, and describes how Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and their European counterparts are pushing conservatism toward a nation-first, hard Right. An absorbing, original history of the Right, Conservatism portrays a tradition as much at war with itself as with its opponents.

Political Intrigue Identity Rebellion

Audiobook details

GenrePolitics and Government

Length17 hrs 35 mins

Narrated byJim Lee

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateOct 20, 2020

LanguageEnglish

1Opening Anno, Preface

11Chapter 6 - Ideas and Thinkers: Distrust of Democracy and of Public Reason

2Part 1, Conservatism's Forerunners, Chapter 1 - Critics of Revolution

12Chapter 6 - Continued

3Chapter 1 - Continued

13Chapter 6 - Continued

4Part 2, What Conservatism Is, Chapter 2 - Character, Outlook, and Labeling of Conservatism

14Part 5, Conservatism's Third Phase (1945-80): Political Command and Intellectual Recovery, The Year 1945. Chapter 7 - Parties and Politicians: Recovering Nerve and Rewinning Power

5Part 3, Conservatism's First Phase (1830-80): Resisting Liberalism, The Year 1830. Chapter 3 - Parties and Politicians: A Right without Authority

15Chapter 8 - Ideas and Thinkers: Answering Liberal Orthodoxies

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6Chapter 3 - Continued

16Part 6, Conservatism's Fourth Phase (1980-the Present): Hyper-Liberalism and the Hard Right, The Year 1980. Chapter 9 - Parties and Politicians: Letting in the Hard Right

7Chapter 4 - Ideas and Thinkers: Turning Reason against Liberalism

17Chapter 9 - Continued

8Chapter 4 - Continued

18Chapter 10 - Ideas and Thinkers: Yes of No to a Hyper-liberal Status Quo

9Part 4, Conservatism's Second Phase (1880-1945): Adaptation and Compromise, The Year 1880. Chapter 5 - Parties and Politicians: Authority Recovered and Squandered

19Chapter 10 - Continued

10Chapter 5 - Continued

20Coda: Choices for the Right, Closing Anno