Edmund Burke

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In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined the public and the private man into a living whole. He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy and offers a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today than in his own time.

Kirk defines four great struggles in the life of Burke: his work for conciliation with the American colonies; his involvement in cutting down the domestic power of George III; his prosecution of Warren Hastings, the governor general of India; and his resistance to Jacobinism, the French Revolution's "armed doctrine." In each of these great phases of his public life, Burke fought with passionate eloquence and relentless logic for his ideals of justice, ideals that continue to appeal today.

Critics Review

  • “Kirk’s scholarship is wide-ranging…and of course he brings to bear his close knowledge of the vast array of modern Burke scholarship. [His]…book is both elegant and eloquent, and it helps to fill a real need.”

    National Review

  • “This is the liveliest and most accessible one-volume biography of Edmund Burke.”

    Midwest Book Review

  • “The book serves as a good short introduction to Burke’s life and throught.”

    Library Journal

  • “A clear and succinct guide to one of the great conservative thinkers of modern times…There is no finer monument to Burke than this book by his most original American disciple.”

    Roger Scruton, author, The Meaning of Conservatism

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