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Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Basic Books
December 2013
On Sale: December 3, 2013
300 pages ISBN: 0465050972 EAN: 9780465050970 Kindle: B00BKRW4Z6 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
For more than two centuries, our political life has been
divided between a party of progress and a party of
conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin
explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining
the views of the men who best represented each side of that
debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a
groundbreaking exploration of the roots of our political
order, Levin shows that American partisanship originated in
the debates over the French Revolution, fueled by the fiery
rhetoric of these ideological titans.
Levin
masterfully shows how Burke's and Paine’s differing views, a
reforming conservatism and a restoring progressivism,
continue to shape our current political discourse—on issues
ranging from abortion to welfare, education, economics, and
beyond. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand
Washington’s often acrimonious rifts, The Great
Debate offers a profound examination of what
conservatism, liberalism, and the debate between them truly
amount to.
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