[D66] Writing Politics

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Writing Politics
Additional Book Information

Series: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 9781681374628
Pages: 496
Publication Date: September 29, 2020

Writing Politics
An Anthology
edited and with an introduction by David Bromwich

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Essays & Criticism
Literature in English
Politics & Current Affairs
Short Stories / Anthologies
Available in Paperback on September 29, 2020


An NYRB Classics Original

David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally 
uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of 
our finest intellectual historians and literary critics and the author 
of a magisterial intellectual biography of Edmund Burke. In Writing 
Politics, Bromwich presents twenty-seven essays by different writers 
from the beginning of the modern political world in the seventeenth 
century until recent times, essays that grapple with issues that 
continue to shape history—revolution and war, racism, women’s rights, 
the status of the worker, the nature of citizenship, imperialism, 
violence and non-violence, among them—and essays that have also been 
chosen as superlative examples of the power of written English to 
reshape our thoughts and the world. Jonathan Swift, Burke, Thoreau, 
Lincoln, George Eliot, Harriet Taylor, W.E.B DuBois, Gandhi, George 
Orwell, Martin Luther King, and Hannah Arendt are here, among others, 
together with a wide-ranging introduction in which Bromwich considers 
the character and significance of political argument and the true power 
of eloquence.