James Burnham

James Burnham (1905-1987) was a leading American conservative of the the 1950s, and an editor of National Review.

He is best known as a proponent of Rollback against Soviet Communism, which he promoted in the late 1940s. Opponents warned it would lead to nuclear war. It was adopted by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and Soviet Communism collapsed.

In the 1930s he was a Communsit of the Trotskyite anti-Soviet variety.

Further reading

• Francis, Samuel. James Burnham: Thinkers of Our Time‎ (2nd ed. 1999) 164 pages
  • previously published as Power and history: the political thought of James Burnham‎ (1984)
• Kelly, Daniel. James Burnham and the struggle for the world: a life (2002) 443 pages

* Smant, Kevin.  How great the triumph: James Burnham, anticommunism, and the conservative (1991) 181 pages
===Primary Sources===

• Burnham, James. The Struggle for the World (1947)
• Burnham, James. The Managerial Revolution: Or What is Happening in the World Now (1940), highly influential study of capitalism
• Burnham, James.