A hardcover omnibus volume of writings by the most influential conservative political thinker of the last three centuries, including his classic responses to the French and American Revolutions. With full-cloth case and silk ribbon marker. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.An eighteenth-century political theorist and philosopher who was born in Ireland and served in Britain's Parliament, Edmund Burke is widely considered the philosophical founder of modern conservatism. He wrote passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and then, later on, in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and arguing for incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke's writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day.