Burke and the Nature of Politics: The Age of the American Revolutionvolume 1

Edmund Burke in recent years has assumed extraordinary stature in American political thinking as the father of neoconservatism. In this book, the first of a two-volume biography of this eighteenth-century English statesman, Mr. Cone brings important new evidence to his thesis that during the age of the American Revolution Burke was significant more as the politician and the party man than as a systematic political philosopher. This volume deals with Burke's career to 1782, when the Marquis of R

Author: Carl B. Cone
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 434
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780813151779

About the Author

Carl B. Cone is professor of history at the University of Kentucky. In addition to the two-volume political biography of Edmund Burke, he is the author of Torchbearer of Freedom: The Influence of Richard Price on Eighteenth Century Thought.

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