Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism by James Burnham

Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism by James Burnham. New York: The John Day Company, [1964]. Hardcover with dust jacket.

James Burnham, author of The Managerial Revolution and The Struggle for the World, was a former Trotskyist who became one of National Review's leading thinkers. In this book he argues that modern liberalism functions as the ideology of Western decline, a case that made it one of the most influential and debated conservative books of its decade. The title is sometimes quoted as a shorthand for that argument.