The Conservative Illusion is a 1959 book by the American political scientist M. Morton Auerbach. It is a critical review of what has been labeled "conservatism" in the United States, which Auerbach traces not to conservative thinkers, but to Plato, Augustine of Hippo and Edmund Burke. The book was written in response to America's post-war "New Conservatives" such as Russell Kirk, Reinhold Niebuhr, Peter Viereck and Will Herberg.[1][2][3]
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| Author | M. Morton Auerbach |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Conservatism in the United States |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Publication date | 1959 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 359 |
References
edit- ^ English, Raymond (1961). "Requiems for Conservatives". Virginia Quarterly Review. 37 (4): 623–628. JSTOR 26442301.
- ^ Norling, Bernard (1961). "The Conservative Illusion? - *M. Morton Auerbach: The Conservative Illusion. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Pp. 359. $6.75.)". The Review of Politics. 23 (2): 286–288. doi:10.1017/S0034670500008500.
- ^ Harbold, William H. (1960). "Book Reviews : The Conservative Illusion. By M. Morton Auerbach. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Pp. xii, 359. $6.75.)". Western Political Quarterly. 13 (3): 803–804. doi:10.1177/106591296001300316.
Further reading
edit- Auerbach, M. Morton (1959). The Conservative Illusion. New York: Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/auer93248.
- Rice, Daniel F. (2015). "The Fiction of Reinhold Niebuhr as a Political Conservative". Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 98 (1): 59–83. doi:10.5325/soundings.98.1.0059.