Table of Contents

One: Specter and Halos: The Fundamental Assumptions; Two: The Table Talk of Gaylord Babbitt; Three: Vignettes on Thin Ice; Four: The Nature of the Crisis; Five: Russia and Peace; Six: Lest We Forget: Fascism Revisited; Seven: The Nature of Freedom; Eight: Bait the Baiters; Nine: Which Kind of Conservatism?; Ten: Free Dissent Versus Conspiratorial Dissent: Some Further Distinctions; Eleven: The Radical Right From McCarthy Through Goldwater, 1953-65

About the Author

Peter Viereck (1916-2006) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic, and historian. He held the Kenan Chair in History at Mount Holyoke College and was known as one of America's early leaders of conservatism. He was the recipient of Guggenheim fellowships both in history and poetry. In addition to his contributions to Poetry Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly, his many books include Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine; Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler;and Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill.

Reviews

-Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals is a serious, thoughtful and important book.- - Bertram Wolfe -[A] truly creative thinker...[Viereck] has struck a powerful blow against the local phenomenon of standardized thinking of both right and left.- - Louis L. Snyder

"Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals is a serious, thoughtful and important book." - Bertram Wolfe "[A] truly creative thinker...[Viereck] has struck a powerful blow against the local phenomenon of standardized thinking of both right and left." - Louis L. Snyder

""Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals" is a serious, thoughtful and important book." - Bertram Wolfe "[A] truly creative thinker...[Viereck] has struck a powerful blow against the local phenomenon of standardized thinking of both right and left." - Louis L. Snyder

""Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals" is a serious, thoughtful and important book."- Bertram Wolfe "[A] truly creative thinker...[Viereck] has struck a powerful blow against the local phenomenon of standardized thinking of both right and left."- Louis L. Snyder