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The Conservative Rebellion (Hardcover)
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The Conservative Rebellion (Hardcover)
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Dr. Richard Bishirjian's Conservative Rebellion examines the
American conservative movement in light of phases of American
history in which the life of the American nation took shape from
forces and conditions of the American soul. The author argues that
the first phase of our common political life was a rebellion that
we call the "Spirit of '76." That rebellion attempted to preserve
the practices, traditions, and customary rights of a tradition of
self-government that developed during the 140 years of the Colonial
era. That first "Conservative Rebellion," erupting in Lexington and
Concord, was a conservative rebellion whose spirit shapes American
politics and society even today through the American conservative
"movement." The author contrasts their rebellion to the
revolutionary political religion of President Woodrow Wilson.
President Woodrow Wilson's redemptive desire to destroy the
"balance of power politics" of early twentieth century Europe
engendered conditions that led to World War II and, ultimately, the
Korean War, the war in Vietnam, and two wars by George W. Bush in
Afghanistan and Iraq that the President clearly intended to be
redemptive from the authoritarian practices of the Middle East. The
divisions that trouble American society today were unleashed by
Woodrow Wilson's political religion and continued by Democrat and
Republican Presidents alike. The Conservative Rebellion has the
potential, the author believes, to replace political religion with
lessons learned from the statesmanship of Americans during the
Colonial and Founding eras and the mid-twentieth century revival of
classical political thought. The renaissance of classical political
theory by University of Notre Dame political theorists Stanley
Parry, Gerhart Niemeyer, and Eric Voegelin and University of
Chicago political scientist Leo Strauss is central to the
conservative "rebellion" of twenty-first century American
conservatives. Their knowledge that recovery of political order is
necessarily based on recovery of spiritual substance and order of
American society, culture, and soul is a cautionary lesson that
there are no quick fixes to the crises, divisions, and failed
Presidents of modern America.
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