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The Machiavellian poetry of James Burnham.(Book Review)
James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life, by Daniel Kelly; ISI Books, 2003, $53.95.
James Burnham, by Samuel Francis; Claridge Press/Newsweek Books, 2003, about $40.
BROWSING THROUGH my file of James Burnham's polemics dating back to the 1930s, it's the letters of resignation that stand out. They are not Luther's theses nailed to the church door but they still have a touch of the historic about them and they are useful markers of the stages of his intellectual life.
The first marks his abandonment of revolutionary Marxism. Dated May 1940 it is his resignation from the Leninist/Trotskyist Workers Party. It is about 6000 words and was ...
- James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: a Life.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Independent Review Stromberg, Joseph R. June 22, 2003 700+ words
...443. $29.95. Daniel Kelly's James Burnham and the Struggle for the World is a...a writer and public intellectual. James Burnham was born in Chicago in 1905 to a Protestant...sensibility, he began writing for Partisan Review. He was developing heretical views...
- The power of James Burnham.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Kimball, Roger September 1, 2002 700+ words
...honored perhaps, but not loved. --James Burnham, Containment or Liberation? "Who is James Burnham?" How often have I fielded variants...I wish that I could predict that James Burnham and the Struggle for the World...
- James Burnham 1905-1987. (obituary)
- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. Hook, Sidney Wacker, Jeanne Galbraith, John Kenneth Giedroyc, Jerzy Criozier, Brian Copeland, Miles Francis, Samuel T. Burnham, James B. Hart, Jeffrey Simonds, C.H. Sobran, Joseph Bridges, LInda Brookhiser, Richard Lynch, Kevin Buckley, Priscilla September 11, 1987 700+ words
James Burnham 1905-1987 At the most recent quarterly...resolved to have a private evening with James Burnham, arranging to bring him from Kent...presence of six hundred guests who gave James Burnham the standing ovation he deserved in...
- The Ingersoll prizes; Burnham and Borges. (James Burnham, Jorge Luis Borges)
- Magazine article from: National Review Coyne, John R., Jr. January 27, 1984 700+ words
...appointed and handsome hotels, to honor James Burnham and Jorge Luis Borges, each of whom...Luis Borges received the former, and James Burnham the latter. The purpose of the awards...intellectual integrity and moral elegance." JAmes Burnham, for 25 years the brilliant theoretician...
- James Burnham: a hard man to snooker.
- Magazine article from: National Review Brookhiser, Richard December 31, 1985 700+ words
...America, the later, lesser shock was the Depression. For James Burnham, thirtyish professor of philosophy at New York University...four people spoke. "The most succinct presentation, by James Burnham, lasted only two hours and caused many of those present...
- James Burnham: Dissecting Modern Liberalism.
- Magazine article from: National Review Pipes, Richard December 19, 2005 700+ words
JAMES BURNHAM Dissecting Modern Liberalism WHO is James Burnham? The question merits an answer, because Burnham, a best-selling author at mid-century, is now largely forgotten. He was a writer who made a full transition from Trotskyism...
- JAMES BURNHAM HELPED FOUND NATIONAL REVIEW
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Associated Press August 1, 1987 700+ words
KENT, Conn. - Conservative columnist James Burnham, a one-time Marxist who became a founding editor of...and I have learned with deep sadness of the passing of James Burnham," President Reagan said in a statement released in Washington...
- Third thoughts on James Burnham.(Ryan)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ryan, Peter December 1, 2003 700+ words
...an Elephant contains a piece called "Second Thoughts on James Burnham", written in 1949. Though Burnham may be today forgotten...violence and retained by fraud--so what? It didn't trouble James Burnham. He became for a while a cult figure, with certain points...
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