Edmund Burke: The First Conservative

by Jesse Norman

Book Overview

Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power. Revered by great Americans including Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Burke has been almost forgotten in recent years. But...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465058973
• ISBN13: 9780465058976
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary