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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.

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University of Missouri
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August 1, 1994
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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

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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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Incredibly insightful and put much of what I have noticed with the Conservative Party as I have gotten older into perspective.

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After reading only a few selections I felt like I could write a 5,000-word tribute. This book is a political science classic. David Brooks said Samuel Francis was/is one of the most important political writers of the past 50 years. True, Bobo, and I would extent that to THE most important.
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.

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another good collection of Francis' essays.

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This book is a collection of Sam Francis’ essays written between 1981 and 1991. He discusses the conservatism and the Right, and describes how true conservatives had become irrelevant. America surely needs Francis' whit and wisdom today.

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This is a brilliant collection of essays by Dr. Samuel Francis, perhaps the leading paleoconservative writer today. As many people don't know, most of today's so-called "conservative" thinkers are in fact "neo-conservatives," or as Francis says "neo-liberals." They accept many of the premises of liberalism, but think liberalism went to far in the 70's. Rather than providing an alternative to the liberals, they are just another aspect of what Francis' mentor, James Burnham, called the "managerial class." This collection contains excellent essays on Martin Luther King, Joe McCarthy and other subjects.

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