Ebook: Edmund Burke in America: the contested career of the father of modern conservatism

The statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke (1729-1797) is a touchstone for modern conservatism in the United States, and his name and his writings have been invoked by figures ranging from the arch Federalist George Cabot to the 20th-century political philosopher Leo Strauss. In this book, Maciag traces Burke's reception and reputation in the United States, from the contest of ideas between Burke and Thomas Paine in the Revolutionary period, to the Progressive Era, to his apotheosis within the modern conservative movement.