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Up From Liberalism Paperback – January 26, 2016

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2016 Reprint of the 1959 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Buckley's third book is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and statements, in the tacit premises that underlie their words and deeds, to be suffering from a long, but definable list of social and philosophical prejudices. "Up From Liberalism" examines the root assumptions of the Libealism of his era and asks the startling question: do the actions of prominent liberalism derive from the attributes of Liberalism?

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Martino Fine Books
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January 26, 2016
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6 x 0.51 x 9 inches
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161427925X
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978-1614279259
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Martino Fine Books (January 26, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 161427925X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1614279259
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.51 x 9 inches

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Timeless

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2022

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What is old is new again. This book is as insightful today as it was in the 50's. It outlines the dilemma faced by conservatives in defining positions against the perceived loss of freedoms, expanding deficits, welfare, expanding state interferences with citizens lives. The beat goes on. The is much wit and humor in the Buckley style.

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Long live the king

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2022

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I was surprised by how similar the dynamics of the left and right struggle are today 63 years later. Today's conservative must find its way back to the movement this man started. Updated but put back in line with principled conservativis.

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Aronne

Saying “I’m an Authoritarian” in the Fanciest Way Possible

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2020

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It’s probably for the best that William F. Buckley Jr.’s breathless and rambling style does little to mask the same loathsome ideology that animates American conservatism in 2020. He writes, “human beings are not equal, cannot be made equal, and must not be deemed equal other than before the law;” which is not, shall we say, the most heartwarming of sentiments.

Buckley’s adoration of hierarchy is reminiscent of unspeakable authoritarian rulers such as Augusto Pinochet, Francisco Franco, and Antonio Salazar—all of whom Buckley explicitly praised, the latter in this very book. Look up Buckley’s authoritarian heroes in an encyclopedia, and you’ll often find a section debating whether they were technically fascists or just dictators. Cool!

The primary merit of Up From Liberalism is that Buckley identifies a few of the key problems with his left counterpart. Even today, liberalism is bloodless, procedure-driven, and civility-obsessed. But Buckley doesn’t follow these observations with a call to democracy and liberation from hierarchy as a leftist would. Instead, Buckley writes, “I see no fixed correlation between the democratic society and the just society; and certainly none between the stable society and the democratic society.” To Buckley, the will of the people is a frustrating annoyance unless it coincides with what he wants.

He gets very mad at Eisenhower for losing a debate with a communist (lol), and later can’t quote a liberal at length without inserting bracketed rants. But there’s only so much laughter to be had.

He naively declares that the elimination of social security would result in businesses giving that money to employees (via wages) or consumers (via price cuts), something history has shown to be pure fantasy. He decries academic freedom as a wastefully endless search, because we already have the most important answers. And worst of all, he speaks warmly of the sympathy conservatives should feel for southern whites suddenly expected to end segregation. Suspiciously absent is the corresponding passage detailing his sympathy for black Americans.

This book is a gleaming gem in the crown of ideological evil that has produced the worst politicians of the past 50 years. William F. Buckley is grinning from hell, and I spit back into the void.

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N. Foster

Read with a good dictionary in hand

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2017

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I read Buckley mostly to improve my vocabulary. If he thought university was liberal in the early 50s he should see it now. It is a festering hotbed
of uni-think where only "progressive" views are allowed. Anyone who disagrees with the official viewpoint is automatically a "Nazi", and is to be dealt with accordingly. No wonder universities are losing millions of dollars from alumni contributions.They should.

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Ginganinja

Great Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2021

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An excellent book and a great edition. His wit and humor continue to amaze. Lovely guidance for the conservative mind especially in a populist period.

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Relevant Yesterday Today And Tomorrow

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2016

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Considerations to truly ponder. Not merely talking media heads screaming over one another in sound bites. Gets to the point and does not "topic pivot" when reality is "inconvenient" to a perspective. Respectful and gracious while humorous and poignant. Refreshing to see the "people stuff" is a forceful element to be reckoned with regardless of generation or culture. Whatever positions you hold, this work provides ample opportunity for the reader to identify, examine, and question with integrity the "why" behind the values one holds.

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Tanner Shipman

Thought Provoking

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 16, 2019

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This book gives an insight as to how we can conserve liberty and protect our great American values and freedoms. This is a must read and should be read by every American.

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Eric

Reads like speeches, not literary argument / articulation of ideas

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2017

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I read this trying to get a better vision of conservative politics, but it feels a lot more like personal attacks on liberal figures and general rhetoric. It reads like speeches intended to gain popular support in the moment, but there's not much substance to the text in my opinion. Buckley sounds like he'd do great in public debates, but the text doesn't have a ton of substance.

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Leftwingers poisoning academia back in the 1950s

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 14, 2017

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Quite an eye-opener. Published in 1959, and with lots of reference to the McCarthy era, this book astonished me by revealing that the dominance and poor behaviour of lefties in American academia was commonplace back then. It is of course currently at lunatic levels as illustrated at Evergreen and Berkeley and Amherst, and many many other places. Back to this book. It is well written, in a sort of old-fashioned style - old-fashioned because of understatement, low levels of repetition, good grammar, impressive vocabulary, and flowing prose. Sardonic also comes to mind.

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