Edmund Burke
1997
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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. Conor Cruise O’Brien’s magisterial book is a rich and fascinating biography of an extraordinary man.
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Conor Cruise O'Brien
Author · 11 books
Irish politician, writer, historian and academic. Member of the Irish Parliament for the socialist Labour Party. Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for the United Kingdom Unionist Party, which advocated direct rule of Northern Ireland from London. Virulently anti-IRA.
