Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville

by Bruce Frohnen

Book Overview

Often loud and acrimonious, the public tug-of-war between a reinvigorated conservatism and a liberalism in apparent disarray has obscured an equally important competition-that among conservatives themselves.

In Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism, Bruce Frohnen joins the fray in an effort to rescue the essence of conservative virtue from rationalists and materialists of whatever political stripe. He argues that we have "lost and must...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700611061
• ISBN13: 9780700611065
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"