Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #286235 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Independent
‘A book by the greatest living Irishman on the greatest Irishman who ever lived'

John Patrick Diggins, New York Times Book Review
‘A brilliant work of narrative sweep and analytic depth. Conor Cruise O'Brien on Edmund Burke is a literary gift to political thought'

Paul Johnson, Independent
'Serious readers of history are in for a treat: a book by the greatest living Irishman on the greatest Irishman who ever lived.'