Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... West ; the fall of the West . In one respect , the decline of the West was obvious after World War II . The territory controlled by the Western powers shrank dramatically . Senator Robert Taft noted in his 1951 book , A Foreign Policy ...
... West ; the fall of the West . In one respect , the decline of the West was obvious after World War II . The territory controlled by the Western powers shrank dramatically . Senator Robert Taft noted in his 1951 book , A Foreign Policy ...
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... West today that say , " These are scraps and tatters , " and deny them any further meaning . In Witness I sought to make two points which seemed to me more important than the narrative of unhappy events which , time has com- pelled me ...
... West today that say , " These are scraps and tatters , " and deny them any further meaning . In Witness I sought to make two points which seemed to me more important than the narrative of unhappy events which , time has com- pelled me ...
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... West might simply lose the war in political or physical terms . But I also allowed for the fact that the West might win the war in such terms and still lose it , if the taxing necessities of the conflict brought the West to resemble ...
... West might simply lose the war in political or physical terms . But I also allowed for the fact that the West might win the war in such terms and still lose it , if the taxing necessities of the conflict brought the West to resemble ...
Contents
Preface by William F Buckley Jr | 1 |
You Ever See a Dream Walking? by William | 19 |
The Quest for a Tradition | 37 |
Copyright | |
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