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Who Stole Conservatism? Capitalism And the Disappearance of Traditional Conservatism

Who Stole Conservatism? Capitalism And the Disappearance of Traditional Conservatism

Dinunzio, Mario

Hardcover

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1440852820
ISBN13: 9781440852824
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jul 1 2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

A compelling explanation of how conservatism is no longer what its founders intended and how it has been transformed into a tool of materialist economics and emptied of much of its original meaning.

During America's 19th-century Gilded Age, free-enterprise capitalist ideas distorted and deeply obscured traditional political conservatism. Conservatism today, argues distinguished historian Mario R. DiNunzio, is a grotesque version of the ideology crafted by its founders, including John Adams in America and Edmund Burke in England.

This compelling book provides a survey of conservative thought and its transformation that originated in the late 19th century, exposing the influence of that transformed conservatism on 20th-century American politics--from Hoover to Goldwater to Reagan and on to the Tea Party. It explains the historical foundations of conservative thought and the radical transformation of conservatism into a vastly different ideology primarily concerned with the defense of unfettered capitalism and extreme rights of individuals, as opposed to the values of traditional conservatism: community, good order, tempered change, and enduring values. DiNunzio challenges conservatives and scholars of conservatism to confront the differences between what passes for conservatism in modern-day American politics and the tenets of the original conservative tradition.

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