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Title: James Burnham papers
Date (inclusive): 1928-1983
Collection Number: 88022
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
12 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope
(5.1 Linear Feet)
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. Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Creator:
Burnham, James, 1905-1987
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1988.
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[Identification of item], James Burnham Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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Biography
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
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1967 |
Author,
The War We Are In
|
1987 July 28 |
Died, Kent, Connecticut |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Anti-communist movements -- United States
Communism -- United States
Conservatism
Journalists
Communism
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
Political science
Anti-communist movements
World politics -- 1945-1989
Congress for Cultural Freedom