Cone, Carl B.,

Burke and the nature of politics : the age of the American revolution / by Carl L. Cone. - [Lexington] : The University of Kentucky Press, (c)1957. - 1 online resource : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 Rockingham, to whom Burke had attached himself seventeen years earlier, stood once again on the threshold of the prime ministership. In this period Burke was the voice --



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Electronic Books.

DA506 / .B875 1957