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Edmund Burke

A Genius Reconsidered

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Edmund Burke

Written by: Russell Kirk
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 Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined into a living whole the private Burke and the public Burke. He gives us a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today than in his own time.

He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy, showing how it revealed itself in concrete historical situations in the 18th century and how Burke, through his philosophy, "speaks to our age".

This volume makes vivid the 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 justice and for the proper balance of order and freedom. With sure instinct born of his sympathy and understanding, Russell Kirk gives us the incisive quotation, the illuminating highlight, the moving, all-too-human elements that bring Burke and his times to vivid life.

©1967 by Russell Kirk (P)1994 by Blackstone Audiobooks Biographies & Memoirs Great Britain Historical Political Science England French Revolution
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Wonderful book


As always, Russell Kirk writes a brilliant text. This made the more worthwhile by its marvellous subject. If justice can be done to the genius and wisdom of Edmund Burke, this very nearly achieves it. The only drawback is the reader – too fast, and peculiar pronunciation. But I don’t want to over exaggerate my criticism. This audiobook wonderful listen.

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