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From Burke to Thatcher, a Long Line of Great Britons |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Martin Sieff |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 972 Words, 6,658 Characters |
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GREAT CONSERVATIVES
By Martin O. Hutchinson
Academica Press, $39.95, 772 pages
The great British conservative tradition is embraced and treasured across the political spectrum of the mainstream American Right, "paleocons" and "neocons" alike. However, even those who believe they have all the answers from Edmund Burke or Paul Johnson, and who adore Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, should find Martin Hutchinson's ambitious neo-tome an education and revelation.
Hutchinson, a former London international merchant banker turned economic and business columnist for United Press International, here attempts the audacious and immensely ambitious effort...
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...tal asides, but this is hardly the way to endear oneself to the academy. He resolutely insists on offending the many shibboleths of every wing of the American conservative movement, even while celebrating the greater whole.
None of this, however, should deter the reader from embarking upon an exhilarating and thought-provoking intellectual adventure.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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