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Praise forPatriotism Is Not Enough

This scintillating exercise in intellectual history is fresh evidence of two things. One is that for many decades now Americas most profound and consequential political arguments have not been between conservatives and liberals, but among conservatives. The other is that Steven F. Hayward, author of the magisterial two-volume The Age of Reagan, is an unsurpassed guide concerning conservatisms not-always-amiable factions.

GEORGE F. WILL

My old boss Ronald Reagan reminded us in his Farewell Address that America requires informed patriotism if it is to avoid an erosion of the American spirit. We have Steven F. Hayward to thank for exploring the lives and thoughts of two of our greatest conservative thinkerswho happened to be fierce rivalson this vital problem.

WILLIAM J. BENNETT, former Secretary of Education, host of The Bill Bennett Interview, and New York Times best-selling author

The famous feud between two of the leading disciples of Leo Strauss makes for a fascinating intellectual story, and in telling it, Steven F. Hayward sheds a bright light on the major issues which have bedeviled political philosophy in our time.

NORMAN PODHORETZ

Steven F. Hayward has a marvelous, Isaiah Berlinlike ability to bring both ideas and the individual behind those ideas to light. Haywards account of the rivalry between Harry Jaffa and Walter Berns gives the reader not only a new angle on the history of modern conservatism but also more broadly makes sense of the rise of constitutional conservatism.

FRED SIEGEL, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and scholar-in-residence at Saint Francis College

[Haywards book] will painlessly acquaint newcomers with some pivotal moments and issues in recent intellectual history, even as it keeps those who already know the subject entertained.

TOD LINDBERG, Commentary

Haywards book is so timely precisely because the kind of patriotism he discusses provides a useful corrective for Trump-style nationalismTrumps nationalism provides a useful corrective based only on philosophic principle. They are mutually correcting and mutually supportive. On the one hand, a patriotism that is based only on the principles of the founding cannot succeed in winning elections, because voters rightly demand that any political movement that seeks their support have some plausible plan to address their ordinary interests. On the other hand, a patriotism that is based only on the untutored loves and interests of ordinary voters cannot preserve our precious inheritance of a regime based on natural rights, the rule of law, and self-government. A movement that acknowledges each of these concerns amounts to the kind of patriotism, and the kind of conservatism, that can both win elections and deserve to win them.

CARSON HOLLOWAY, The Public Discourse

Steve Hayward may be the most versatile man in American conservatismThere are just not many conservative public intellectuals who have deep knowledge of public policy who can also offer a subtle and textured analysis of political philosophy.

JEREMY CARL, National Review

The book is a fascinating chronicle in itself and an instructive tour of important political preceptsTodays confusion over what principles should guide our lawmakingor regulate our societymake the BernsJaffa quarrel freshly relevant.

WILLIAM ANTHONY HAY, Wall Street Journal

What makes this book so refreshing is that author Steven Hayward details with gratitude the ways that both men deeply influenced him, and how both might have finally agreed with each other even if they never really acknowledged it.

RICHARD M. REINSCH II, Law and Liberty

With Patriotism Is Not Enough, Steven Hayward has rendered in a lively way a tremendous serviceespecially at the present momentby laying out some of the most essential questions concerning what it is to be an American and a conservative. One can only hope readers will turn next to his subjects best books.

MATTHEW J. FRANCK, Claremont Review of Books

PATRIOTISM is not ENOUGH

PATRIOTISM

IS NOT

ENOUGH

HARRY JAFFA, WALTER BERNS,

AND THE ARGUMENTS THAT REDEFINED

AMERICAN CONSERVATISM

STEVEN F. HAYWARD

2017, 2018 by Steven F. Hayward

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Encounter Books, 900 Broadway, Suite 601,
New York, New York, 10003.

First American edition published in 2017 by Encounter Books, an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc., a nonprofit, tax exempt corporation.

Encounter Books website address: www.encounterbooks.com

Manufactured in the United States and printed on acid-free paper. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.481992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).

First paperback edition published in 2018.

Paperback edition ISBN: 978-1-64177-018-7

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGUED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Names: Hayward, Steven F., author.

Title: Patriotism is not enough : Harry Jaffa, Walter Berns, and the arguments that redefined American conservatism / by Steven F. Hayward.

Description: New York : Encounter Books, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016024177 (print) | LCCN 2016027479 (ebook) | ISBN 9781594038839 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781594038846 (Ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: ConservatismUnited States. | Political sciencePhilosophy. | United StatesPolitics and government. | Jaffa, Harry V. | Berns, Walter, 19192015

Classification: LCC JC573.2.U6 H393 2016 (print) | LCC JC573.2.U6 (ebook) | DDC 320.520973dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016024177

As this book is chiefly about Harry Jaffa and Walter Berns, naturally Ill dedicate it to C. S. Lewis. Partly because Lewiss own moral philosophy was congruent with Jaffa and Berns, but also because he was not a stranger to confronting disagreements between like-minded men.

But what would I think of your Thomas More or of our William Tyndale? All the writings of the one and all the writings of the other I have lately read right through. Both of them seem to me most saintly men and to have loved God with their whole heart: I am not worthy to undo the shoes of either of them. Nevertheless they disagree and (what racks and astounds me) their disagreement seems to me to spring not from their vices nor from their ignorance but rather from their virtues and the depths of their faith, so that the more they were at their best the more they were at variance. I believe the judgment of God on their dissention is more profoundly hidden than it appears to you to be: for His judgments are indeed an abyss.

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