JAMES BURNHAM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE WORLD

What Else They're Saying...

"Kelly's book is a…well written and rich addition to the growing literature of a brilliant American thinker, James Burnham. One can only hope for more of the same."'
— Center for Research on Geopolitics

"Though Burnham and Meyer passed from the scene some time ago, two new biographies, published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, assure that they will not fade into oblivion. Both books are meticulous works of intellectual history, recording the full trajectory of their subjects' ideas while giving spare attention to the details of their personal lives. … The books'…focus does usefully enable one to follow the evolution of American conservative thought during the decades of its resurrection."
— Commentary

"The author, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer, presents a comprehensive biography of this staunch anticommunist and advocate of limited government and limited presidential authority."
— Foreword

"I should acknowledge that until reading James Burnham and the Struggle for the World, I, too, belonged to that unfortunate multitude which recognized 'James Burnham' as but a name. I am deeply grateful to Kelly for dispelling my ignorance. For James Burnham…was an astonishing writer. Subtle, passionate, and irritatingly well-read, he commanded a nimble style that was sometimes blunt but unfailingly eloquent. Burnham was above all a rousing writer. …[A]s Daniel Kelly's book vividly reminds us, James Burnham's insights and attitudes—above all, perhaps, his allergy to political sentimentality—are needed now more than ever."
— The New Criterion

"Others…have written on Burnham's life and work, but, overall, Kelly's biography is the most richly detailed in discussing not only Burnham's life and writings but also the context of events through which he lived and to which he responded in his struggle to preserve freedom. Kelly's excellent, thoroughly researched biography makes clear why the Presidential Medal of Freedom was well deserved."
— Society

"Although Burnham never attracted the kind of cultish following that Buckley and some of his colleagues at National Review encouraged, he was a far more significant figure in both the history of American conservatism and the intellectual history of the last century than most conservatives understood during his lifetime-or understand today…. Mr. Kelly has produced a well-researched book that needed to be written…."
— Chronicles

"Here is a remarkable life story of an American intellectual's odyssey in the twentieth century. This biography of Jim Burnham recounts the seven decade global struggle between totalitarianism and democracy and makes for fascinating reading. The author has done a noteworthy job of chronicling the circumambient ideas and ideologies of the time, an achievement which validates the book's title. A superb intellectual history, the book deserves to be high on academic reading lists."
— Arnold Beichman, Hoover Institution research fellow and author of Anti-American Myths: Their Causes and Consequences

"James Burnham—a major figure of the conservative movement in the United States—was an original and influential thinker and activist of unpredictable opinions and wide ranging interests. This well deserved, illuminating and well organized biography will acquaint the reader with both his life and ideas while providing a rich social-historical analysis of his times. A most helpful volume for understanding the pro- and anti-communist movements and their major representatives in American society during much of the past century."
— Paul Hollander, author, Political Pilgrims, Anti-Americanism, and Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism

"[K]elly has written a book essential to our understanding of modern American conservatism."
—Ohio History

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