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Edmund Fawcett’s
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition was published in October, and follows on from his 2015 work
Liberalism: the Life of an Idea.
Fawcett has had a glittering career in journalism, writing for
The Economist for several decades, where he served as the chief correspondent in Washington, Paris, Berlin and Brussels.
In this latest book, Fawcett provides a detailed history of political conservatism from the late 18th century, tracing both the evolution of political parties as well as the development in conservative thought. He focuses on four key countries his native United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany and examines the history of conservatism from its origins in opposition to the revolutionary spirit of the French Revolution, through the long periods of political ascendancy and on to the recent rise of the hard right a development which the author believes has profound consequences for the future of mainstream conservatism.