The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

Author: David Bromwich

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0674729706

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This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. David Bromwich reads Burke’s career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be.

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

Author: Christopher Hitchens

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780802143839

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Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.

Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke
Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke

Author: James Prior

Publisher: Arkose Press

Published: 2015-11-07

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781346249391

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