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The Struggle for the World
by James Burnham. 260 pgs.

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Part I The Problem

1. the Immaturity of the United States

2. is It Really One World?

3. the Political Consequences Of the Atomic Bomb

4. World Government or World Empire?

5. the Nature of Communism

6. from Internationalism to Multinational Bolshevism

7. the Goal of Soviet Policy

8. the Weakness and Strength Of the Soviet Union

9. is a Communist World Empire Desirable?

10 the Main Line of World Politics

Part Ii What Ought to Be Done

Ii. the Renunciation of Power

12. Political Aims and Social Facts

Part Iii What Could Be Done

13. the Break with the Past

14. the Supreme Object of United States Policy: Defensive

15. the Supreme Object of United States Policy: Offensive

16. the Internal Implementation Of Foreign Policy

17. World Empire and the Balance of Power

18. is War Inevitable?

19. the Policy of Vacillation

Part Iv What Will Be Done

20. the Outcome
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Congress and the American Tradition
by James Burnham. 380 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Part One: The American System of Government

I: The Miracle of Government

II: Ideology and Tradition

III: The Paradox of Sovereignty

IV: The Diffusion of Power

V: Power and Limits

VI: Public and Private

VIII: The Traditional Balance

Part Two: The Present Position of Congress

IX: The Fall of Congress

X: The Law-Making Power

XI: The Rise of the Fourth Branch

XII: The Purse

XIII: And the Sword

XIV: The Problem of Treaties

XV: The Escape of the Treaty Power

XVI: The Investigatory Power

XVII: The Attack on Investigations

XVIII: Theoretical Gravediggers

XIX: The Case Against Congress

XX: The Reform of Congress

Part Three: The Future of Congress

XXII: The Logic of Democratism

XXIV: What is a Majority?

XXV: Leader of the Masses, Assembly of the People

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Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in America, 1880-1940 (Chap. 10 "James Burnham: Collectivism Triumphant")
by James Gilbert. 356 pgs.

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Introduction

The Collectivist Tendency

2: Outlines of a World View

3: An Ideology Without Borders

4: From Fabianism To Industrial Democracy

5: Edmond Kelly And The Socialism of Order

6: King Gillette's Social Redemption

7: Charles Steinmetz And The Science of Industrial Organization

8: William English Walling: the Pragmatic Critique of Collectivism

9: Reinhold Niebuhr: The Theologian As Power Broker

10: James Burnham: Collectivism Triumphant

11: The Intellectuals And Collectivism

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A Note on Sources

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A Note on the Author
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The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s ("James Burnham: From Neo- thomism to Trotskyism" begins on p. 175)
by Alan M. Wald. 480 pgs.

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Introduction Political Amnesia

Part I Origins of the Anti-Stalinist Left

Chapter I Jewish Internationalists

Chapter 2 Dissident Communists

Chapter 3 Radical Modernists

Part II Revolutionary Intellectuals

Chapter 4 Philosophers and Revolutionists

Chapter 5 the Moscow Trials

Chapter 6 Cannonites and Shachtmanites

Chapter 7 the Second Imperialist War

Chapter 8 the New York Intellectuals in Fiction

Part III the Great Retreat

Chapter 9 Apostates and True Believers

Chapter 10 the Cul-De-Sac of Social Democracy

Chapter II the Bitter Fruits of Anticommunism

Epilogue Marxism and Intellectuals in the United States

Notes

Index
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The Power of James Burnham, in New Criterion
by Roger Kimball. 8 pgs.

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James Burnham and the New World Order, in National Review
by John O'Sullivan. 13 pgs.

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James Burnham: A Hard Man to Snooker, in National Review
by Richard Brookhiser. 3 pgs.

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James Burnham 1905-1987, in National Review
by William F. Buckley Jr., Sidney Hook, John Kenneth Galbraith. 24 pgs.

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Fifty Key Figures in Management ("James Burnham (1905-87)" begins on p. 36)
by Morgen Witzel. 334 pgs.

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Witzel dscribes 50 of the key figues in the development of management, giving a brief account of their lives and careers and summing up their contributions.

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Management Themes

Fifty Key Figures in Management

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