| Collation |
xi, 493 pages ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An autobiographical memoir -- Race, sex, and family. Welfare : the best of intentions, the worst of results -- The tragedy of "multiculturalism" -- Reflections on love and family -- Men, women, and sex -- AIDS and false innocence -- Life without father -- From adversary culture to counterculture. American intellectuals and foreign policy -- Capitalism, socialism, and nihilism -- The adversary culture of intellectuals -- The cultural revolution and the capitalist future -- Countercultures -- On capitalism and the democratic idea. Machiavelli and the profanation of politics -- About equality -- The frustrations of affluence -- Utopianism, ancient and modern -- Social reform : gains and losses -- Business and the "new class" -- Corporate capitalism in America -- On conservatism and capitalism -- The American Revolution as a successful revolution -- What is "social justice?" -- Adam Smith and the spirit of capitalism -- Socialism : an obituary for an idea -- |
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The conservative prospect. American historians and the democratic idea -- Urban civilization and its discontents -- The Republican future -- "The stupid party" -- The emergence of two Republican parties -- The new populism : not to worry -- The coming "conservative century" -- The new face of American politics -- America's "exceptional conservatism" -- On Jews. God and the psychoanalysts -- Einstein : the passion of pure reason -- Is Jewish humor dead? -- Christianity, Judaism, and socialism -- The future of American Jewry -- Some backward glances. Memoirs of a "cold warrior" -- Memoirs of a Trotskyist -- My cold war. |
| Note |
Milton and Rose Friedman Collection. |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Alt Title |
Subtitle on jacket: Selected essays 1949-1995 |
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Neo-conservatism |
| ISBN |
0028740211 |
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9780028740218 |
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