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Edmund Burke: Essential Works and Speeches

Name: Edmund Burke: Essential Works and Speeches
Author: Peter Stanlis
ISBN: 9781412806244

by Edmund Burke

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Overview

Conservative Edmund Burke (1729-1777) was a British statesman, orator, and political writer. This comprehensive anthology provides authoritative insight into Burke's political life and philosophy. Editor Peter Stanlis incorporates all of Burke's essential writings and speeches from the decade before he entered politics until just before his death. 584 pp.

Synopsis

By any reasonable judgment, Burke has to be considered one of the world's outstanding thinkers on politics.-- Peter J. Stanlis, from his Preface

About the Author, Peter Stanlis

Peter J. Stanlis (1919-2011) was distinguished professor of humanities emeritus at Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois. His writings have appeared in Modern Age, The Political Science Reviewer, and The Intercollegiate Review and his books include Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and the Modern World; Robert Frost: The Individual; and Conversations with Robert Frost.