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  Book Title: The
Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence	 	
  Book
Author: David Bromwich (Author) 
   Hardcover: 512 pages
  
Publisher: Belknap Press (April 21, 2014)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0674729706
   ISBN-13:
978-0674729704
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: April 21, 2014
  David Bromwich’s portrait of statesman Edmund
Burke (1730–1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it emerges in
both the major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily dissociated, nor
should they be. For Burke—a thinker, writer, and politician—the principles of politics were merely those
of morality enlarged. Bromwich reads Burke’s career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the
dense medium he knew politics to be.
  
  This intellectual biography examines the first three decades of
Burke’s professional life. His protest against the cruelties of English society and his criticism of all
unchecked power laid the groundwork for his later attacks on abuses of government in India, Ireland, and France.
Bromwich allows us to see the youthful skeptic, wary of a social contract based on “nature”; the theorist of
love and fear in relation to “the sublime and beautiful”; the advocate of civil liberty, even in the face of
civil disorder; the architect of economic reform; and the agitator for peace with America. However multiple and various
Burke’s campaigns, a single-mindedness of commitment always drove him.
  
  Burke is commonly seen as
the father of modern conservatism. Bromwich reveals the matter to be far more subtle and interesting. Burke was a
defender of the rights of disfranchised minorities and an opponent of militarism. His politics diverge from those of any
modern party, but all parties would be wiser for acquaintance with his writing and thoughts.
  
 
Reviews
  Edmund Burke was famed for weaving into arguments like a serpent;
David Bromwich displays equal finesse, skill, and relentlessness in moving through the complexities and sheer volume of
Burke's writings. The drive, fluency, and intelligence of Bromwich's analysis allow the reader to see Burke as that rare
animal, a prime thinker who was also a practicing politician, a man caught up in a time when both varieties of democracy
and new forms of empire were violently and contentiously on the rise. (Linda Colley, author
of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History)
  
  The Intellectual Life of Edmund
Burke shows, in a very enlightening way, how Burke returns over and over to the theme of the relations between a
politician and 'the people' and the gradual hardening of his insistence that while popular views must be taken account
of, they must not determine how a conscientious politician acts. Bromwich reads Burke with care and depth and displays a
range of learning and insights. His approach to Burke as a moralist in public life is original. (Peter Marshall, editor of The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Vols. V-VII)

 
  Drawing on Burke’s correspondence, as well as his public writings and speeches, Bromwich presents the
portrait of a serious thinker who cannot be easily categorized as either conservative or liberal--Burke spoke out about
abuse of power, even supporting the American colonies, yet at times seemed to distrust democracy…Bromwich has
brought his considerable research and writing skills together to present a readable, thorough picture of Burke’s
earlier years. (Nancy R. Ives Library Journal 2014-04-15)
  
 
Magnificent…Bromwich masters and then mines [the copious private correspondence] with a degree of skill and
discrimination I haven’t seen in a Burkean study since the late 1970s…The sheer, marvelous plenitude of the
material Bromwich brings into his narrative quickly broadens the story to take in the full ambit of Burke’s
public intellectualism…Bromwich thoroughly understands how clearly the man is revealed in his writing, and one of
the greatest pleasures in The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke is the regularity with which we get chunks of
Burke’s own intensely good prose. The man was a tireless student of human nature and one of the sharpest
observers of man the political animal since Tacitus. And his descriptions of political creatures are uniformly so
perceptive that any 21st century [reader] will find them instantly recognizable…Bromwich might not be doing the
standard finances-and-family run-through of a biography, but he nevertheless ends up painting as vivid a personal
portrait as any biography-reader could want…[An] irreplaceable study, which inadvertently underscores the
disquieting extent to which we are all living in a political continuum of Burke’s shaping. When this volume is
completed by its sequel, we’ll have a benchmark of Burke studies fit to last a century. (Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly 2014-04-17)
  
  Magisterial…It is
the best in-depth, comprehensive recent analysis of Burke’s thought--plus it is an enjoyable
read…Bromwich’s work reveals a Burke who is politically principled and (more or less) philosophically
consistent, but who does not conform conveniently to our present-day conceptions of right or left. (Drew Maciag Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-05-05)
  
  All good
biographies are called magisterial, but David Bromwich’s The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime
and Beautiful to American Independence actually merits the adjective. Edmund Burke was a rare figure: a working
politician who was also one of the great thinkers of his, or any, time…Bromwich’s book, the first in a
two-part biography, does justice to both the politics and the thought, showing how Burke’s principles--a hatred
of violence and a love of liberty--emerged from political and historical circumstances. Meticulous in its research and
elegant in style, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke is a masterpiece of intellectual history. (Anthony Domestico Christian Science Monitor 2014-05-29)
  
  In The
Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke, David Bromwich sets aside the conventional views of Burke--the eloquent opponent of
radical ideology--to track the formation of his outlook and explore his early career…The Intellectual Life of
Edmund Burke most of all reminds us that Burke’s understanding of the moral psychology guiding politics sprang
from his engagement with both ideas and practical questions. Certainly a better grasp of Burke’s early thought
and the political turmoil of his time will prepare us for a fuller understanding of his response to the dramatic events
of the late 18th century--not least, the outbreak of the revolution in France and the implications Burke saw for England
and for liberty itself. (William Anthony Hay Wall Street Journal 2014-06-01)

 
  Probing and subtle…Helps us glimpse the sources of Burke’s surprising longevity…
Bromwich’s Burke is not the evasive pragmatist who has been conscripted as the founding father of
conservatism…Bromwich’s biography promises to be the fullest and most responsibly sensitive account of both
Burke’s consistency and his ductility that we will ever have. (David Womersley
Standpoint 2014-07-01)
  
  [A] recent biographer of Burke calls him the father of conservatism. So
a reappraisal of his early works is welcome. David Bromwich, a professor at Yale University, has written a history of
Burke’s thought until American independence; a more liberal Burke emerges from this book…Burke continued to
fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He
supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more
liberal laws on the punishment of debtors. He even pushed to curb the slave trade in 1780, a quarter of a century before
it was abolished.(The Economist 2014-07-05)
  
  It is David
Bromwich’s aim in The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke that people should know a good deal more about what Burke
actually said and wrote…Bromwich’s patient and subtle exposition is a continuing delight. After reading
this first volume, several major misreadings of Burke and a more general ignorance of his arguments and actions will not
be possible, or at any rate won’t be legitimate…The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke is both indispensable
and unputdownable, and with its companion volume will surely form a lasting landmark. (Ferdinand Mount London Review of Books 2014-08-21)
  
  About the Author
  David Bromwich is
Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.  						

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