Publication year: 2026
Language: italian
ISBN: 978-88-95285-82-5
Number of pages: 172
Volume format: A5
Cover price: 15.00€
ISBN: 978-88-95285-83-2
Number of pages: 170
Cover price: 10.00€
Focusing on key figures and important intellectual circles of the American right, the volume offers a path through political cultures, beginning with the birth of anti-communist conservatism and reaching today's post-liberalism. The right during the Cold War was shaped by thinkers such as James Burnham and Max Eastman, who were central figures in extraordinary intellectual adventures that began in the revolutionary left, and by the "National Review," a fundamental cultural catalyst of the 1950s and 1960s. In the subsequent decades, the neoconservative movement emerged, destined to exert a strong influence on the White House. The concluding point of the volume is, finally, the post-liberal right of the Trump era, both in its ethno-nationalist version and in the Californian technolibertarian one.
Giovanni Borgognone is a full professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Turin. Among his publications are a destra americana. Dall’isolazionismo ai neocons (Laterza, 2004), Storia degli Stati Uniti. Dalla fondazione all’era globale (Feltrinelli, 2013), America bianca. La destra reazionaria dal Ku Klux Klan a Trump (Carocci, 2022) and with P. Chiantera Stutte Civilization. Global Histories of a Political Idea (Lexington Books, 2022). He is a political commentator for programs on Rai and Radio 24.
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