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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Oct 26, 2024 11:25 PM

Author:Conor Cruise O'Brien

Edmund Burke

Statesman, political thinker, orator and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. His ideas and principles were expressed in the great debates over liberty, the rights of man and the American and French Revolutions, and are among the most important in modern history. Conor Cruise O'Brien's magisterial book is a rich and fascinating biography of an extraordinary man.

Reviews

One of America's great historians.

—— Washington Post Book World

Pipes is not a mere communicator of facts but a philosopher examining the deeper, broader trends beneath the surface of history.

—— San Francisco Chronicle

Brilliant... enchanting

—— Jan Morris , Independent

Moving, perceptive and sharply observed...the journal is a valuable addition not just to the canon of wartime and holocaust literature, but to that of all humanity

—— Literary Review

'A splendidly honest and vividly detailed venture into some of history's darkest corners-by a novelist who is also a superb reporter'

—— Kirkus Reviews

This is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the window of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto of the anticolonial revolution, and as such it is highly important for any Western reader who wants to understand the emotional force behind that revolution

—— Time

The most comprehensive look at the work of these intrepid sailors . . . A celebration of their ingenuity and valor

—— Baltimore Sun

Reads like an adventure novel, but it's all to real

—— Seyour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of Camelot

The veterans of the 'Silent Service' are silent no more

—— John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy , Wall Street Journal
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