Eberstadt, Mary Tedeschi. “Robert Nisbet’s America.” Commentary 86, no. 2, (1988): 55-59.

Abstract:

[In the following essay, Eberstadt considers Nisbet’s increasing alarm at the increase of centralized political power in the United States and its effects on primary social institutions.]

When a conservative thinker of Robert Nisbet’s stature surveys the American scene only to find “a deeply flawed giant; not yet moribund but ill-gaited, shambling, and spastic of limb, often aberrant of mind,” his claims to our attention are several. As a preeminent scholar, sociologist, and historian of ideas, Nisbet has been a mainstay of American intellectual life for decades. From his…

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