The great debate : Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left / Yuval Levin.
The great debate : Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left / Yuval Levin.
The great debate : Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left / Yuval Levin.
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New York : Basic Books, [2014]
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G 2015/1024
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Language
English
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Physical content
xix, 275 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Two lives in the arena --
Nature and history --
Justice and order --
Choice and obligation --
Reason and prescription --
Revolution and reform --
Generations and the living --
Conclusion.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, [2014]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2014]
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"In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as...
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The great debate : Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left / Yuval Levin.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index.
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G 2015/1024
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74VKO07yBKRb
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ISBN
9780465062980
9780465050970 (hardback)
0465050972 (hardback)
0465062989
DDC
320.50973
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991022628409702626
