Edmund burke biography jesse norman

Edmund Burke was a British politician and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1765-94..

In this absorbing new biography Conservative MP Jesse Norman gives us Burke anew, vividly depicting his dazzling intellect, imagination and empathy.

  • A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a.
  • Edmund Burke was a British politician and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1765-94.
  • Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years.
  • Jesse Norman, MP, the author of Edmund Burke: The First Conservative, does not play around with the first sentence in his introduction.

    • Edmund Burke: The First Conservative

    Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power.

    Revered by great Americans including Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Burke has been almost forgotten in recent years. But as politician and political philosopher Jesse Norman argues in this penetrating biography, we cannot understand modern politics without him.

    As Norman reveals, Burke was often ahead of his time, anticipating the abolition of slavery and arguing for free markets, equality for Catholics in Ireland, and responsible government in India, among many other things.

    He was not always popular in his own lifetime, but his ideas about power, community, and civic virtue have endured long past his death. Indeed,