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1	The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist Statesman, political thinker, orator, and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the most brilliant figures of the eighteenth century. This unorthodox biography focuses on Burke's thoughts, responses, and actions to the great events and debates surrounding Britain's tumultuous relationships with her three colonies--America, Ireland, and India- ... see all copies from $21.21! new only from $34.19! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	A Concise History of Ireland more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien, Maire Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist There is a tragic inevitability about Irish history: "hatred answering hatred", as Lady Gregory wrote. Four events in particular, Yeats' "four deep, tragic notes", ring through Irish history: the Catholic revolt against Elizabeth; the battle of the Boyne, which established the Protestant Ascendancy; the impact of the French Revolution; and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism more books like this by Conor Cruise Obrein, Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist A courageous, dramatic telling of the Jewish homeland's extraordinary story, from the birth of Zionism and its founders on. see all copies from $1.99!
5	The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist This is an examination of Thomas Jefferson through the critical lens of the French Revolution. Conor Cruise O'Brien argues that Jefferson, though enthralled with the ideological mystique of the French Revolution, nevertheless retained a shrewd political pragmatism, skillfully exploiting the Revolution's popularity with the American public. ... see all copies from $3.82! new only from $10.78! \| first editions
6	Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist Scholar and statesman Conor Cruise O'Brien illuminates why peace has been so elusive in Northern Ireland. He explains the conflation of religion and nation through Irish history into our own time. Using his life as a prism through which he interprets Ireland's past and present, O'Brien identifies case after case of the lethal mixing of God with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	One the Eve of the Millennuim: The Future of Democracy Through and Age of Unreason more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien, Connor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist This collection of essays examines how nationalism and religion are threatening democracy, the rule of the law, and freedom of expression throughout the world. It points to nations who, by tighteneing their borders to stem the tide of illegal immigrants, are abandoning their commitment to the international rights of man. Similarly, an unlikely ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Memoir: My Life and Themes more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist Conor Cruise O''Brien was raised with Maud Gonne (Mrs Yeats) and the infamous terrorist, the Countess Markiewicz. He has been editor of the Observer, an Irish senator, Ambassador to the UN and a director of Amnesty International.' see all copies from $2.91! new only from $15.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist A distinguished statesman and man of letters deplores the mounting attacks on Enlightenment values that jeopardize the very survival of the democratic institutions they inspired. Enlivening his grim predictions with dry wit, O'Brien nevertheless conveys an apocalyptic sense of the threats facing democracy as we approach the third millennium. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.51! \| first editions
10	God Land: Reflections on Religion & Nationalism more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist In his usual witty style, Conor Cruise O'Brien illuminates the confusion and conflation of religion and nationalism throughout history, and the enormous tensions produced by interactions between the two. see all copies from $2.09! new only from $10.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien: Anthology more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien, Donald Harman Akenson add to wishlist Conor Cruise O'Brien is recognized internationally for having lived a series of controversial public lives - scapegoated UN representative during the Belgian Congo crisis, champion of academic freedom at the University of Ghana, courageously independent political activist, gadfly among the New York intelligentsia of the 1960s, leading Irish ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| first editions
12	Passion and cunning and other essays more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Edmund Burke more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist An abridged edition of "The Great Melody" which was first published in 1992 and is a thematic biography and commented anthology of Edmund Burke. This celebration of Burke's lifelong struggle against the abuse of power incorporates both Burke's ideas on the American and French revolutions, as well as his debates on Catholic emancipation and the ... see all copies from $2.79! new only from $11.48!
14	The United Nations: sacred drama more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $3.45! first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	McQ's in Sports Medicine more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist The author is well known within the field, and is one of the few specialists with American as well as British qualifications in sports medicine. He is also as an examiner on the Irish College of Surgeons diploma in sports medicine course. see all copies from $25.69! new only from $35.73! \| SVS
16	Camus more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $3.15! first editions
17	Murderous Angels: A Political Tragedy and Comedy in Black and White more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! first editions
18	Passion and Cunning: Essays on Nationalism, Terrorism and Revolution more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination more books like this by Ms. Susan Dunn, Conor Cruise O'Brien (Foreword by) add to wishlist The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the ... see all copies from $22.94! new only from $24.46! \| SVS
20	States of Ireland more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
21	The Story of Ireland more books like this by Maire Cruise O'Brien, C Conor add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22 view cover	The Enduring Edmund Burke: Bicentennial Essays more books like this by Ian Crowe (Preface by), Conor Cruise O'Brien, Bruce Frohnen add to wishlist This collection, published to mark the bicentennial of Burke's death, contains original explorations into the life, thought, and influence of one of the West's greatest statesmen and political philosophers. see all copies from $19.66! new only from $21.59! \| first editions
23	The long affair : Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist Jefferson and his enthusiasm and commitment to the French Revolution are discussed here. The book also considers his initial motivations and how he sought to best exploit the upheavals in France for his own advantage at home. see all copies from $2.92! new only from $30.96! \| first editions
24	Passion and cunning. more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
25	Neighbours: Four Lectures more books like this by Conor Cruise O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $7.01! first editions

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