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On Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
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On Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"

A Discussion with David Bromwich

Edmund Burke was a British government official who saw the French Revolution as a mob action. He wrote a book called Reflections on the Revolution in France. It was published in 1790—one year after the French Revolution officially began. David Bromwich is a Sterling Professor of English at Yale. Some of his written works include the books The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke and How Words Make Things Happen. See more information on our website, WritLarge.fm.

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