| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2020003421 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781641771023 |
| Qualifying information |
(cloth) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
164177102X |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9781641771030 |
| Qualifying information |
(epub) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1119581057 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us--- |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
AJMA |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
KF4541 |
| Item number |
. K47 2021 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
342.73029 Kes |
| Item number |
9 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
342.73029 Kes |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kesler, Charles R., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Crisis of the two constitutions : |
| Remainder of title |
the rise, decline, and recovery of American greatness / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Charles R. Kesler. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First American edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Encounter Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xviii, 451 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| Type of unit |
Hardback book. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The founders and the classics -- Relativism and the Declaration of Independence -- Federalist 10 and American Republicanism -- Civility and citizenship : George Washington on civil and religious liberty -- Perpetuating the republic : education and politics -- A new birth of freedom : Abraham Lincoln, Harry V. Jaffa, and the founders -- Three waves of liberalism -- Woodrow Wilson and the statesmanship of progress -- Constitutional decline and the administrative state -- From citizenship to multiculturalism -- Barak Obama and the future of liberalism -- The old new left and the new new left -- Reagan's unfinished revolution -- What's wrong with conservatism? -- Democracy and the Bush doctrine -- Culture, creed, and American nationalism -- Trump and the conservative cause -- Thinking about Trump : morality, politics and the presidency. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"American politics grows embittered because it is increasingly torn between two rival constitutions, two opposed cultures, two contrary ways of life. American conservatives rally around the founders' Constitution, as amended, and as grounded in the natural and divine rights and duties of the Declaration of Independence. American liberals herald their "living Constitution," a term that implies the original is dead or superseded, and that the fundamental political imperative is constant change or "transformation" (as President Obama called it) toward a more and more perfect social democracy, made possible by man's increasingly god-like control of his own moral evolution. Crisis of the Two Constitutions details how we got to and what is at stake in our increasingly divided America. It takes controversial stands on matters political and scholarly, describing the political genius of America's founders and their efforts to shape future generations through a constitutional culture that included immigration, citizenship, and educational policies. Then it turns to the attempted progressive refounding of America, tracing its accelerating radicalism from the New Deal to the 1960s' New Left to today's unhappy campus nihilists. Finally, the volume appraises American conservatives' efforts, so far unavailing despite many famous victories, to restore the founders' Constitution and moral common sense. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, what have conservatives learned and where should we go from here?" -- Dust jacket flap. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"If Conservatism is to succeed and thrive, it must return to its American roots (not Burke or the common law, or Kirk and traditionalism, or libertarianism and Hayek) Donald Trump understands, in a common sense and political way, the principles of the Founding and how they should be applied to forge a new governing coalition. The neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has more in common with progressivism than with the American Founding. Politics is not "downstream from culture" because politics, especially political foundings, create the culture of a country. Multiculturalism and identity politics, and their notion of group rights, is incompatible with the nation state, citizenship, and the protection of rights as America's Founders those things"-- |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
108640 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Constitutional history |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Conservatism |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Display text |
Online version: |
| Main entry heading |
Kesler, Charles R., |
| Title |
Crisis of the two constitutions |
| Edition |
First American edition |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New York City : Encounter Books, 2020. |
| International Standard Book Number |
9781641771030 |
| Record control number |
(DLC) 2020003422 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
300 - 399 |