James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life - Hardcover

Kelly, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1882926765 ISBN 13: 9781882926763

Publisher: Isi Books, 2002

Synopsis

From his pre-World War II days as Leon Trotsky's leading American apologist to his postwar role as mentor to William F. Buckley Jr. at National Review, James Burnham (1905-1987) was, at different times, one of America's most important intellectuals on both the Left and Right of the political spectrum. This researched volume, the first full-length biography of Burnham, should establish him as one of the twentieth century's outstanding thinkers.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Kelly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University.

From Publishers Weekly:

Best remembered for his first book The Managerial Revolution (1941) and as senior editor of the National Review, James Burnham spent his life struggling to rid the world of totalitarianism and liberalism in all their forms. In his comprehensive biography, James Burnham and the Struggle for the World, Daniel Kelly, who taught modern European history at NYU until 1996, narrates in minute detail Burnham's development as a political thinker from his college days at Princeton and Balliol College, Oxford, to his work as a Trotskyist in the 1930s, to his eventual disenchantment with socialism and swing to the right. He supported imperialism and defended U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Kelly's turgid prose and exhausting detail make for tiresome reading, but a small circle of readers will find this chapter of political history engrossing. Foreword by Richard Brookhiser.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Isi Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1882926765
• ISBN 13: 9781882926763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 443