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2. James Burnham - Wikipedia

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   James Burnham (November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987) was an American philosopher and political theorist. He chaired the New York University Department of Philosophy . His first book was An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis (1931).

3. David Burnham (novelist) - Wikipedia

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   David Burnham (March 2, 1907 – 1974), was an American novelist. Burnham was born in Chicago, Illinois. [1] He was the son of Claude George Burnham, an English immigrant who was executive for the Burlington Railroad, and Mary Burnham (née Gillis) from Minnesota. [1] His elder brother was James Burnham (1905–1987), philosopher and political ...

4. The Managerial Revolution - Wikipedia

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   The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World is a book written by James Burnham in 1941. It discusses the rise of managers and technocrats in modern industrial societies , arguing that they would replace the traditional capitalist class as the rulers of the economic system, through mechanisms such as economic planning .

5. Second Thoughts on James Burnham - Wikipedia

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   Second Thoughts on James Burnham" ("James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution", when published as a pamphlet [1]) is an essay, first published in May 1946 in Polemic, by the English author George Orwell. The essay discusses works written by James Burnham, an American political theorist.

6. Sam Francis (writer) - Wikipedia

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   In September 2017, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote: "The only time I saw Sam Francis face-to-face — in The Washington Times cafeteria sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s — I thought he was a crank, but it's clear now that he was at that moment becoming one of the most prescient writers of the past 50 years. There's very ...

7. Suicide of the West - Wikipedia

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   Keiper favorably compares Goldberg's book to James Burnham's 1964 book, also titled Suicide of the West, saying that while Burnham's book was cynically fatalistic in describing a similar premise, Goldberg emphasizes potential changes that could be made. [11] In New York, Park MacDougald described the book as "idea-free." The book is "dull ...

8. Joseph Bottum (author) - Wikipedia

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   Reviewing the book for The American Interest, the columnist David Goldman wrote, “Joseph Bottum may be America's best writer on religion.” [35] In The Week, Michael Brendan Dougherty compared the book to work by James Burnham, Daniel Bell, and Christopher Lasch, suggesting “with the publication of An Anxious Age, I wonder if these earlier ...

9. Managerial state - Wikipedia

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   Furthermore, Orwell identifies Burnham's critique of managerial state to unveil a sort of 'power-worship', stating that "it is not surprising that Burnham's world view should often be noticeably close to that of the American imperialists on the one side, or to that of the isolationists on the other. It is a 'tough' or 'realistic' world-view ...