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.
"Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many decades--veteran political observer Edmund Fawcett traces the ideals, successes, and failures of this central political tradition through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinkers and politicians, from the early nineteenth century to today. Using a broad idea of liberalism, the book discusses celebrated thinkers from Constant and Mill to Berlin, Hayek, and Rawls, as well as more neglected figures. Its twentieth-century politicians include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Willy Brandt, but also Hoover, Reagan, and Kohl. The story tracks political liberalism from its beginnings in the 1830s to its long, grudging compromise with democracy, through a golden age after 1945 to the present mood of challenge and doubt."--book jacket.