Edmund Burke Conor Cruise O'Brien

Name: Edmund Burke By Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O'Brien

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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.

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Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O'Brien

Edmund Burke Reviews

"A book by the greatest living Irishman on the greatest Irishman who ever lived." - Paul Johnson, "Independent" "A brilliant work of narrative sweep and analytic depth. Conor Cruise O'Brien on Edmund Burke is a literary gift to political thought." - John Patrick Diggins, "New York Times Book Review"

About Conor Cruise O'Brien

Connor Cruise O'Brien was born in 1917. A writer and diplomat, he was the United Nations special representative in the Congo in 1961. To Katanga and Back (1962), a book drawing on these experiences, is a classic in modern African history. In 1965 O'Brien took a Chair at New York University. He has been pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin since 1973, and was Editor in Chief of the Observer between 1978 and 1981. One of the most outspoken opponents of the IRA, O'Brien has written a number of treatises against the dangers of the myths of Irish republicanism and, in 1996, he was elected to the Northern Ireland negotiating forum as a member of the new UK Unionist Party. Among his many publications are Parnell and his Party (1957), Writers and Politics (1965), States of Ireland (1972), and The Siege (1986). He published his autobiography, Memoir: My Life and Themes, in 1998.

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GOR003235602

ISBN 13

9780099433446

ISBN 10

0099433443

Title

Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O'Brien

Author

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Series

Vintage Lives

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2002-05-02

Number of pages

368

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N/A

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