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Title: James Burnham Papers
Collection Number: 88022
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
12 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope
(5.1 linear feet)
Date (inclusive): 1928-1983
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to communism in the United States and
abroad, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other anti-communist movements in the United States and abroad, political conditions
in the United States and the world, and conservative political thought.
Creator:
Burnham, James, 1905-1987
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], James Burnham Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1988.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
| 1905 Nov. 22 | Born, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1929-1942 | Professor of Philosophy, New York University |
| 1929-1933 | Co-editor, Symposium |
| 1931 | Co-author (with Philip Wheelwright), Introduction to Philosophical Analysis |
| 1941 | Author, The Managerial Revolution |
| 1943 | Author, The Machiavellians |
| 1947 | Author, The Struggle for the World |
| 1948 | Author, The Case for De Gaulle (with Andre Malraux) |
| c. 1949-1953 | Consultant, Central Intelligence Agency |
| 1950 | Author, The Coming Defeat of Communism |
| 1953 | Author, Containment or Liberation? |
| 1954 | Author, The Web of Subversion |
| 1955-1977 | Editorial Board, National Review |
| 1959 | Author, Congress and the American Tradition |
| 1964 | Author, Suicide of the West |
| 1967 | Author, The War We Are In |
| 1987 July 28 | Died, Kent, Connecticut |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Congress for Cultural Freedom
Anti-communist movements--United States.
Anti-communist movements.
Communism--United States.
Communism.
Conservatism--United States.
Journalists
Political science.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government.
World politics--1945-