Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers

254 Pages·2009·10.972 MB·English

by  Paul Gottfried

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“Encounters will be indispensable as a source
when the history of the conservative movement
is written.”
—JEFFREY HART
author of The Making of the American Conservative Mind
“An engaging and evocative journey across the
landscape of American conservatism.”
—JAMES KURTH
professor of political science at Swarthmore College
aul Gottfried, America’s leading paleo-
conservative intellectual, has spent a life-
time asking politically incorrect questions.
That penchant for untimely questions, along
with his fierce intellectual integrity, has
sometimes made him unpopular among
other conservatives, but it has also brought
him into close contact with some of the most
important leaders and thinkers of the past
half century.
Now, in the fascinating memoir Encounters,
Gottfried candidly recounts his associations
with a host of compelling and commanding
figures, from presidents to scholars, Marx-
ists to anticommunists, neoconservatives to
libertarians, and beyond. Here he vividly
recalls the strange evolution of his friendship
with Richard Nixon—a Nixon very differ-
ent from the public persona; his relationship
with a rather unlikely mentor, the famous
leftist Herbert Marcuse; his long friendship
with the pugnacious Pat Buchanan; the often
conflicting visions of three eminent men of
the Right—Russell Kirk, Murray Rothbard,
and Sam Francis; his early run-ins, and later
rapport, with the historian and social critic
Christopher Lasch; and much more.
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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
Copyright © 2009 Paul Gottfried
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or trans-
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written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.
Gottfried, Paul.
Encounters: my life with Nixon, Marcuse, and other friends and
teachers / Paul Gottfried. — 1st ed— Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books,
C2009.
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ISBN: 978-1-933859-99-6
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Gottfried, Paul. 2. Conservatism—United States—His-
tory—2oth century. 3. United States—Politics and government—1945-
1989.
I. Title.
E743 .G664 2009 2008938527
320.52/0973—dc22 0905
ISI Books
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Manufactured in the United States of America
Contents
Introduction
I Apam
i" A Life Recalled
ll The Marcuse Factor
IV A Religious Visionary
V A Flamboyant Friend
VI Three Central Europeans
VII —s-T wo Pugnacious Republicans
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149
VIII ~— Reconciliations
IX Voices against Progress
Acknowledgments 205
Index 207
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