American Burke : the uncommon liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Greg Weiner
- Author:
- Weiner, Greg
- Published:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
- Physical Description:
- xv, 189 pages ; 23 cm.
- Series:
- American political thought
- Contents:
- Introduction: "And you still break stone" -- The central truths -- Poverty and problems poorly stated -- The United States in aspiration -- Toward a Burkean liberalism.
- Summary:
- "This is the first book to analyze the political thought of the scholar-statesman Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003), who was eulogized by the Economist as 'a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers.' Identifying the New Yorker as a 'Burkean liberal' who believed that government does have an important role to play yet should acknowledge its own limitations and society's complexity, Greg Weiner suggests that America's shriveled political conversation would be enriched by thinking like Moynihan's"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s):
- Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003—Political and social views
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797—Political and social views
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003
- United States. Congress. Senate—Biography
- United States. Congress. Senate
- Liberalism—United States
- Legislators—United States—Biography
- Statesmen—United States—Biography
- Scholars—United States—Biography
- Legislators
- Liberalism
- Political and social views
- Political science
- Scholars
- Social policy—Philosophy
- Statesmen
- United States—Social policy—Philosophy
- United States—Politics and government—Philosophy
- United States
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780700620968 cloth acid-free paper and 0700620966 cloth acid-free paper
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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