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Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (Volume 1) Paperback – August 1, 1994
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The 1992 presidential election campaign showed just how deep were the divisions within the Republican party. In Beautiful Losers, Samuel Francis argues that the victory of the Democratic party marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but the failure of the American conservatism.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Missouri
- Publication dateAugust 1, 1994
- Reading age18 years and up
- Dimensions6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100826209769
- ISBN-13978-0826209764
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"This collection of provocative articles and review essays by a Washington Times columnist deals variously with the quarrel between the Old Right and the Neoconservatives, the emergence in the last decade of multiculturalism and political correctness, as well as the shifting of traditional moral, sexual, and social norms."--Publishers Weekly
"In Beautiful Losers Samuel Francis stakes his claim as one of the most important conservative thinkers of our time. His work complements the efforts of an earlier generation of American conservatives who focused on defining and celebrating the 'social and cultural substratum' on which our freedom rests. His unique and valuable contribution has been to define the forces that threaten that freedom, while offering a framework within which we can fight to preserve it."--Chronicles
"Francis is a skilled prose stylist; his essays are often a pleasure to read for that reason alone."--Detroit News
About the Author
Samuel Francis is a nationally syndicated columnist with the Washington Times. He is the author of Power and History: The Political Thought of James Burnham and The Soviet Strategy of Terror.
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- Publisher : University of Missouri (August 1, 1994)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0826209769
- ISBN-13 : 978-0826209764
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Item Weight : 13.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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The theory at the core of “Beautiful Losers” is what makes the book so revolutionary (read: not conservative). It goes something like this – A political earthquake known as the Great Depression ushered in an elite known as managerial liberalism (a term taken from the work of James Burnham). Having reached its peak in the 1960s, managerial liberalism has since become corrupt and dysfunctional. Yet, given its cultural dominance, it cannot be displaced by the nice-sounding ideas of the conservative movement and/or libertarianism (neoconservatism is more an arm of the liberal regime than anything else). Appeals to Christianity, free-market economics etc. do not attach themselves sufficiently to the public mind to arrest this dominance. It is only populist nationalism, by igniting the passions of the middle class, that can dislodge the managerial elite. That, my fellow Americans, is the hard truth at the foundation of this milestone publication.
Until the Right uses government like the Left to reward its people and institutions (and punish enemies) as well as grow its presence in the at-large culture, it will continue to lose. For those wanting to impact politics, writes the eminent Dr. Francis, we are all big-government revolutionaries now.








