Background
Kendall was born in 1909 to a blind minister in Oklahoma.
(In this work, the author invites the reader to travel alo...)
In this work, the author invites the reader to travel along with him as he investigates many of the political questions that have long confronted our society: Congress vs. the President, is it deadlock, gridlock or two majorities? The American community, is it pluralism or orthodoxy? What do Americans mean by "All men are created equal"? Who should control our public schools? Is the genius of the American people for self-government failing? A posthumous collection originally published by 1971 by Arlington House, this reprinted edition includes for the first time Kendall's provocative essay, "The 'Open Society' and its Fallacies"―as relevant today as when it was first written. The essays, speeches, and part of a projected book included in this work direct the reader's attention to subjects that reflect the general theme running through all of Kendall's political thought―the ways that majority rule can bring about government that is sound and just.
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( More than twenty years ago a maverick political scienti...)
More than twenty years ago a maverick political scientist named Willmoore Kendall predicted the triumph of conservatism. Upon the 1963 publication of Kendall's The Conservative Affirmation, his former Yale student William F. Buckley, Jr. called him "one of the most superb and original political analysts of the 20th century," but even Buckley shook his head at what appeared to be Kendall's "baffling optimism." During the 60's, Kendall stood apart from the mainstream conservative movement which he accused of being anti-populist and of "storming American public opinion from without" by wrongly assuming that the American people were essentially corrupt and "always ready to sell thier votes to the highest bidder." Kendall believed that Americans would come to actively realize the conservatism which they had always actually lived. Seventeen years after his death in 1967, Kendall's predictions come to fruition.
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Kendall was born in 1909 to a blind minister in Oklahoma.
He learned to read at age two, graduated from high school at 13, from the University of Oklahoma at 18, and published his first book at 20. In 1932, he became a Rhodes scholar and studied at the University of Oxford. In 1940, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from the University of Illinois writing his dissertation upon John Locke on Majority Rule under Francis Wilson.
He became a Trotskyist and went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. His experiences with the Spanish Republic led him to renounce his communist convictions. He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World World War II, and stayed on when it became the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.
He joined the Yale University faculty in 1947, where he taught for fourteen quarrelsome years until Yale paid him a handsome sum to resign.
In 1961, he surrendered tenure and departed. Among his students was William F. Buckley, Junior., with whom he participated in the founding of National Review.
As a Senior Editor he constantly fought with the other editors (they say he was never on speaking terms with more than one person at a time). He stayed at that institution until he died of a heart attack in 1967.
Trivia
Kendall is the model for the character Jesse Frank in South. Zion"s 1990 novel Markers.
(In this work, the author invites the reader to travel alo...)
( More than twenty years ago a maverick political scienti...)
(Important early conservative text.)
(Book by Kendall, Willmoore)
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