Edmund Fawcett is een Britse politieke journalist die zich verdiept in de geschiedenis en toekomst van het liberalisme. Zijn werk verkent de kernideeën die de liberale traditie hebben gevormd en analyseert de hedendaagse uitdagingen ervan. Fawcett's stijl staat bekend om zijn duidelijkheid en scherpzinnigheid, waardoor lezers een dieper inzicht krijgen in complexe politieke filosofie. Met zijn werk beoogt hij de blijvende relevantie van liberale idealen te belichten in een voortdurend veranderende wereld.
"Conservatism focuses on an exemplary core of France, Britain, Germany and the United States. It describes the parties, politicians and thinkers of the right, bringing out strengths and weaknesses in conservative thought"--Provided by publisher.
Despite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and updated edition of what has become a classic history of liberalism, Edmund Fawcett traces its ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of exemplary thinkers and politicians from the early nineteenth century to today. Significant revisions--including a new conclusion--reflect recent changes affecting the world political order that many see as presenting new and very potent threats to the survival of liberal democracy as we know it. A richly detailed account of a vulnerable but critically important political creed, this book reminds us that to defend liberalism it is vital to understand its character and history