American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Those who lament Washington's polarized politics will find both inspiration and even hope in this first book to analyze the political thought of the scholar-statesman Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003), who was eulogized by the Economist as "a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers." Identifies the New Yorker as a "Burkean liberal" who believe that government does have an important role to play yet while fully acknowledging its limitations and society's complexity.

Author(s): Greg Weiner
Published: 2015
Categories: Legislators